Yeah just back up your files guys… The mega corpos definitely won’t just randomly delete your backups and tell you to kick rocks.
Back it up locally, sure, but how many average users follow (let alone know about) basic data preservation principles? 3,2,1? Not going to happen. It’ll be a single 5TB SMR external HDD with no redundancies or integrity checks.
Even continued access to a game you own is not guaranteed these days. The disc is useless if the server no longer has the other 30% of the game files needed to boot the game.
If there were $5 2TB optical discs, we could actually own all of the game and it’s launch files. It would also be great for piracy and sharing 4K movies and shows. This isn’t a pipe dream, they (optical media manufacturers) could make this technology a reality (with enough backing/incentive), they (media and games lobbies) don’t want them to.
Yeah just back up your files guys… The mega corpos definitely won’t just randomly delete your backups and tell you to kick rocks.
Back it up locally, sure, but how many average users follow (let alone know about) basic data preservation principles? 3,2,1? Not going to happen. It’ll be a single 5TB SMR external HDD with no redundancies or integrity checks.
Even continued access to a game you own is not guaranteed these days. The disc is useless if the server no longer has the other 30% of the game files needed to boot the game.
If there were $5 2TB optical discs, we could actually own all of the game and it’s launch files. It would also be great for piracy and sharing 4K movies and shows. This isn’t a pipe dream, they (optical media manufacturers) could make this technology a reality (with enough backing/incentive), they (media and games lobbies) don’t want them to.
But optical media is a horrendous storage solution.