Post #3619005

2026-07-06 03:33 UTC

Just because it’s not your use case (and maybe you’d find a use if it was available), doesn’t mean it’s not a common one. People have been making do with offline HDDs, which is a waste of their potential, and they’re now victim to the RAMpocalypse price hike too. Just as an example, people would probably take a lot more video with their oh so capable phones if there was somewhere to put TBs of it cheaply.

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@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2026-07-06 03:53

I’m not speaking to my use case, I’m speaking about the market as a whole. You can buy an Ultra Blu-ray burner along with 100 GB discs. There are alternatives already out there on the market and it likely wouldn’t be a major jump tech wise to get up to the TB range. People used to have binders full of data, this would continue that trend. Yet no one it’s developing it, including Chinese tech companies. I’m not doubting that there are use cases out there; I can even think of a use case for me. Yet, the market demand out there doesn’t seem to be worth it where any company wants to take that leap. That Sony is abandoning physical media for games when it won two generations for discs based on its gaming consoles is a giant red flag.

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