For example, since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the cessation of production of the HDCAM & HDCAM SR master format as well as a broadcast industry migration to file based digital media delivery, this overall resulted in a higher demand for reliable backup and digital access to media libraries leading to wide adoption of the Optical Archive system in Japan for backup of 4K and HDR content.

[4] (renewed in 2018) In 2001 "PetaSite was announced to the global market"[5] In 2004 the CSM60, CSM100, CSM200 with 50~108 TB via SAIT2/LTO2 tape cartridges was launched[6] In 2006 Sony & NEC start a joint venture in Optical Archives and Blu-ray/DVD reader/writer units founding 2009~Current IBM/Sony stop sale of the CSM and SAIT2/LTO2 based systems, still providing service support for existing systems.

In 2020, Sony released the third generation system,[10] with new 5.5 TB cartridges and an updated capability to the PetaSite ecosystem alongside desktop readers with USB Type-C 3.2 interfaces.

In 2023, the Sony web site shows all of the ODA drives and PetaSite libraries as discontinued products.

The OTA archival system is supported by a few 3rd party media asset management platforms notably Square Box.

In 2016 Nagoya Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. adopted the second generation of the PetaSite system for Digibeta and HDCAM digital archival.

[3] In 2018 RayCom Sports, adopted the third generation of Sony Optical Disc storing HDCAM, DVCPro and Betacam tapes alongside migrating their existing optical XDCAM archives using the Professional Disc[16] In 2017 Ishikawa Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. adopted the second generation of the PetaSite system for on site and off-site backups.

[18] In 2022 the VHS-decode project recommended ODA for at scale archival of analog tape media formats, preserving raw FM RF video/audio signals in FLAC compressed form for future software defined processing & playback.

In 1999 Telemadrid, Spain adopts OTA for Approximately 200,000 hours (350,000 tapes) of shelf based storage is managed by the archive system.