Blank BluRay Prices Continue to Fall

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

I wasn't disputing you, p. When I think of "consumer" market (versus "enthusiast" or early-adopter), I have Joe Sixpack's technology buff brother-in-law in mind. We probably won't see these included in HP units available at Wal-Mart, but the home-build market should find $350 palatable for high-efficiency, long life-expectancy, massive storage. Guys like you, skiz, Art, and Idol (Idol gets included not for his knowledge, but he has enough disposable income to wear these as running shoes).

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Sorry meg didn't mean to come off like that. I really should have been more clear initially.

Beck, you working at facebook now? :P http://arstechnica.com/information-t...e-data-center/That robot BD jukebox contraption is pretty interesting.

I retired 13 years ago, before I was 50.

There are a lot of folks that are betting on huge tape carousel setups to do the same thing, but obviously are much slower random access wise; I built several such for insurance companies many years ago, that I believe are still working, and in fact I did trip across another article that 'petabyte' (or higher) class of tape systems are being built right now.