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Have any old Zip disks laying around (or did you ever)? How accessible are the contents to you today? Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now.
by bkeroack 11y ago
Have any old Zip disks laying around (or did you ever)? How accessible are the contents to you today?
Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now.
- steven777400 11y agoEven having the drives may not mitigate issues of that kind. A variety of articles [0] describe unexpectedly (well, to consumers at least) short lifespans on CD-Rs. Lots of CD drives are still around, but you might be unpleasently surprised if you put in a 15 year old CD-R that's been sitting on the shelf. [0] Google search: burned cd lifespan
- eropple 11y ago> Have any old Zip disks laying around (or did you ever)? Nope. Too young for Zip disks. My data's on redundant hard drives in my NAS and has a cloud backup as the braces to that NAS's belt. > Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now. I have a remarkable amount of trust and faith in the Internet Archive to continue being excellent at their jobs or others to pick up the slack. This thread reminded me about a project I wanted to bounce off of those folks, too...BRB.
- greglindahl 11y agoThe way to save bits is to copy them onto new media every few years. That's what the Internet Archive does -- we're currently phasing out 2 terabyte disks for 8's.