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Storage space gets cheaper and more voluminous by the day. Everything can be kept and tomorrow you can keep even more.
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
Storage space gets cheaper and more voluminous by the day. Everything can be kept and tomorrow you can keep even more.
- rtkwe 11y agoIt's not free though so every company with data makes decisions about what is worth saving. Sure the costs are always falling but you have to pay (at best) today's prices to store today's data.
- tptacek 11y agoNon-sequitur. The point of the thread is that it's not at all clear that reliable long-term storage is getting cheaper by the day.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoDefine 'reliable long-term'. Roll-over to new tech is safe. The content of discussion is inherently reliable due to its digital nature. Keeping multiple copies is necessary practice and the long-time trend is that the next copy you produce has no greater cost than the previous copy (if you wait years, it will be significantly cheaper).