Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodontech.de/@alterelefant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alterelefant</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@Heidi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Heidi</span></a></span> As of now, we can see stuff like the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ExaDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExaDrive</span></a>, a 100TB 3,5" SSD for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>online</span></a> - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/archival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archival</span></a> storage.</p><ul><li>As <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Helium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Helium</span></a>-filled <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SMR</span></a>-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HDD</span></a>|s struggle to meet the demand for storage at an acceptable thermal &amp; power envelope and price, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSD</span></a>|s will inevitable take over as not only the more robust media but also cheaper, more dense and easier to use.</li></ul><p>As for the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NeoFloppy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoFloppy</span></a> that thing could be made - I'm just not good enough layouting PCBs with the precision needed for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PCIe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCIe</span></a> signalling...</p><ul><li>Needless to say if constant write speed and lifetime in writes is secondary, then a stack of cheap <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SATA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SATA</span></a>-SSDs already beats <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LTO</span></a>-9 tapes unless you need to backup literal <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Petabytes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petabytes</span></a> and need the fancy features like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WORM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WORM</span></a> media.</li></ul><p>That being said, it's inevitable that even WORM as a feature may be copied over.</p><ul><li>In fact <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZFS</span></a> can already offer many features of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LTFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LTFS</span></a>, including read-only snapshots and thus append-only <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a>. </li></ul><p>Until there are <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/COTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COTS</span></a> solutions tho, LTO <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tape</span></a> and other options will OFC remain dominant and relevant.</p><ul><li>Still I'd happily see storage vendors take up the <a href="https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NeoFloppy</a> and build something off it.</li></ul>