This guy asks about archival - https://superuser.com/questions/374609/what-medium-should-be-used-for-long-term-high-volume-data-storage-archival

They say to buy a 30TB LTO-8 tape cartridge for $79 - https://www.networkworld.com/article/3638116/why-aren-t-optical-disks-the-top-choice-for-archive-storage.html

ROMs would be useful for storing lots of data for long periods of time without corruption or freeing up space on your SSD for more hot data, that could be automated. They should be cheap and compact. These are useful properties.

  • @holdengreenOP
    2•2 years ago

    I think NAND flash manufacturing is just optimized to such a degree that it’s much cheaper than everything else.

    I understand but I’m trying to make an argument that the ROMs would be significantly cheaper and more compact given the same scaling… But I wouldn’t know enough to say for sure so I’ll keep reading.

    • Arsen6331 ☭
      2•2 years ago

      That is very much possible, but the capitalists are only going to scale what they think will get them money now, so it’s doubtful that they’re going to think long-term enough to actually do that.