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		wmf on Jan 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's new optical storage solution [video] I don't think LTO is any more proprietary than Blu-ray.

protomyth on Jan 30, 2014 [–]

and LTO has way less licensing problems than Blu-ray and LTO-6 has a max of 2.5TB. LTO is also guaranteed to to read tapes from 2 generations earlier and write one generation earlier. Blu-ray has no such long term guarantee.

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