Thanks!<p>I thought this quote from a recent James Hamilton blog post seemed like a plea for the hard drive manufacturers to get their act together... seems like he&#x27;s not alone ;)<p>&quot;But, leveraging an existing disk design will not produce a winning product for archival storage. Using disk would require a much larger, slower, more power efficient and less expensive hardware platform. It really would need to be different from current generation disk drives. Designing a new platform for the archive market just doesn’t feel comfortable for disk manufacturers and, as a consequence, although the hard drive industry could have easily won the archive market, they have left most of the market for other storage technologies.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perspectives.mvdirona.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;everspan-optical-cold-stroage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perspectives.mvdirona.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;everspan-optical-co...</a>