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Surely the only intended customers are giant organizations with petabytes of data. Millions of dollars for their archival system does not seem unreasonable. I recall reading a story that movie studios refresh their physical media for their archives every N years to prevent data loss. If these slabs of glass are stable that removes an ongoing operational burden. Just make a single chip with all of the assets per movie.