3 ms·
That's probably not going to happen. Tapes have high longevities and you can buy used LTO drives on eBay for a few hundred bucks, but the biggest issue in 100 y
by fy20 6y ago
That's probably not going to happen. Tapes have high longevities and you can buy used LTO drives on eBay for a few hundred bucks, but the biggest issue in 100 years is going to be finding a device to read the tape, and finding an adapter to hook it to the USB-H 12 quantum optical port on your motherboard.
A better way would be to use something like that to store it for a decade or two, then copy the data onto whatever the newer version of archive medium is (LTO drives can typically read the last one or two versions as well). Rinse and repeat every decade, and it also lets you test if there has been any bitrot.