Tape remains the best value for money when it comes to carrying very, very large amounts of data
According to OpenAI 01, over 25,000 movies have been released on Blu-ray since the format went mainstream about 20 years ago*.
I wanted to know what would be the best way to store all of them in a small and manageable space. For this exercise, I assume that the average size of a Blu-ray movie is 40GB, which means that I would need 1PB of storage.
25,000 disks weigh just over 900 pounds (about 411Kg), not something you’d want to lug around. At the other end of the spectrum, 1PB of content can fit on 500 2TB microSD cards, which would cost around $85.000 and weigh just over 1.2Kg, swap for 1TB microSD cards would shave the total cost to about $45,000 and bump the weight to 2.5Kg. But you’d still need to organize 1,000 cards the size of a pinkie fingernail.Spot prices for media
MicroSD
– Teamgroup 2TB: $189.99 at Amazon
– Sandisk Ultra 1.5TB: $107.46 at Amazon
– Teamgroup Go 1TB: $59.99 at Amazon
– Teamgroup Go 512GB: $28.99 at Amazon
Hard drives
– Seagate Expansion 24TB: $335.43 at Provantage
– Seagate Expansion 26TB: $372.91 at Provantage
– Seagate Expansion 28TB: $407.
