I think we would all hoard data if it was cheap.
Today I had to suggest cloud storage. That’s the cheapest and easiest to maintain.
There is optical storage solutions that is adequate for most consumers and even LTO tapes it is fast enough, can be produced cheaply but the drives are advertised to businesses and sold with that business premium cost.
This bugs me. Also the fear of being deported soon
Storage is incredibly cheap.
Spinning metal has been trending towards a penny a gigabyte for two decades. Things seem bad now but it’s only 3 cents a gigabyte like 2018.
Lto is also incredibly cheap by any measure in comparison to the past.
Great. We are back to 2018 prices.
We are oh so fortunate the prices just doubled and not went back to 1990s level for >100GB drives… /s