"Public information on tape drive sales is not readily available. Unit shipment peaked at about 800,000 units in 2008, but have declined since then to about 400,000 units in 2010,[98] and to less than 250,000 by the end of 2018[99]
As HDD prices have dropped, disk has become cheaper relative to tape drives and cartridges. As of 2019, at any capacity, the cost of a new LTO tape drive plus one cartridge is much greater than that of a new HDD of the same or greater storage capacity. However, most new tape cartridges still have a lower price per gigabyte than HDDs, so that at very large subsystem capacities, the total price of tape-based subsystems can be lower than HDD based subsystems, particularly when the higher operating costs of HDDs are included in any calculation.[100]"
users should file a class action lawsuit against reddit for all the cash. https://www.classaction.org/database
also start collecting evidence for if lemmy gets strip mined.
not the first time, apparentlyhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/u-haul-discloses-data-breach-exposing-customer-driver-licenses (2022)