Sony's Optical Disc Archive (https://pro.sony/en_AU/products/optical-disc) is alive and kicking. Each cartridge basically uses 11 optical discs for 5.5TB per Cartridge and ~300MB/sec transfer speed[0]. It's last update was in 2019. Too bad we won't see a new generation, as Sony has basically killed any future development.
Folio Photonics has just got some funding and they are saying they will be able to launch with capacities of 10 TB per cartridge.
I assume because realistically, LTO has already a large share of the backup market in business/enterprise, and for most people, offsite backups either through the internet, or 3-2-1 using portable hard drives are easier and cheaper.
ODA is expensive. The drives reportadly die quickly, and LTO is the animal you know. ODA only ever had one manufacturer. I believe LTO still has two or three? (IBM, HPE and maybe Quantum, but I think they are IBM).
Putting all of your eggs in one basket is never a good idea.
There were a few rumours going around that Amazon Glacier were using ODA for backups 10+ years ago, but I'm pretty sure they were just That-rumours.
Though the lawsuits are more complex with multiple parties suing RED, of which Nikon also fought RED and ended up buying them out to win that side of the battle. On the panasonic side it was more of their cinema line of cameras rather than Lumix that was the driver (though they have trickle down)
And prores isn’t necessarily RAW, it’s just one of the variants.
> so you won't need a key to read the translated poetry
This probably sounds like a crazy question, but if you are already getting translations using someone else's API keys, can't you just store/cache that response so that the next time the translation is requested, you already have it?
This is pure survivorship bias talking. Being ruthless is one way to get just about anything you want, but rarely the best way and it sits with you. Even Steve Jobs spent so much time justifying his shittyness that I think on some level it didn't sit with him very well.
> From the start, the production team knew they didn’t want a music video that relied solely on any single technique. With this goal in mind, they worked to blend live action, AI, and a wide range of handcrafted animation styles – 2D, 3D, collage and motion design.
The Aquilon RS4 can do DisplayPort 1.4[1] up to 32.4Gbps (HBR3). You will need two DP1.4 output cards[2] and two DP1.4 input cards[3].
Probably easier & cheaper to do switching in HDMI 2.1 though.
Aquilon is expensive, but the nice thing about the units is that they literally allow you to have a seamless switching experience (everything else will blank out the screen, and cause it to disconnect for a few seconds while everything resyncs).
I went down a similar rabbit hole a while back and ended up building something that attacks the same problem from the opposite direction: instead of just a hardware box that switches everything (video + USB), I wrote Fence[1], a software layer that automates switching USB input devices when you glide the mouse to the edge of the screen.
The idea is basically "Synergy's convenience, but with real hardware switching." You run a tiny client on each machine. When your cursor hits the left edge of your desktop, Fence tells a USB and HDMI Switch to physically redirect your keyboard and mouse to the next PC.
The switching happens in hardware and you can design your layout per-direction and per-device.
Where the L1T KVM is the "one box handles video and IO beautifully" approach, Fence is more of an "IO routing layer" that lets you keep your existing monitors and their auto-input-switching (or a separate video path).
I built it specifically to be cross-platform. You don't pass clicks/keystrokes over the network, just a "switch to pc2 PC, left edge" message.
Not a replacement for the L1T if you want one-button video+peripheral switching, but if someone likes their monitor's own input handling and just wants the "mouse to edge" workflow it's a nice middle ground.
I like the fact that moving the mouse to different edges of the screen can show exactly the source to the sink that I want.
I originally built it for live streaming with OBS, but now, I miss it when I have more than one computer I need to deal with at a time.
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