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The data on that USB drive will deteriorate over a couple decades. NAND memory generally isn't an adequate format for archival purposes.
by tylermw 6y ago
The data on that USB drive will deteriorate over a couple decades. NAND memory generally isn't an adequate format for archival purposes.
- beagle3 6y agoIndeed. The BBC’s Domesday book was put on a pre-CD glass based optical medium which should last forever, but they managed to lose reading equipment for it, and a huge digitization effort from the 80s would have been lost (they published a call for help, and eventually someone found a reader in their garage.... but it was a close call)
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoYeah I see online empirical data that shows anywhere from years to centuries, depending on temperature. So not thousands of years.