> The only way to preserve digital information is to constantly babysit it, making sure you have two/three copies and replacing the broken disks Yes, but I bab

> The only way to preserve digital information is to constantly babysit it, making sure you have two/three copies and replacing the broken disks Yes, but I babysit all my digital information via that one process, and that's a lot of information. My collection is currently sitting at just over 3 TB. That's an awful lot of photo albums, and yet it still fits on a single hard drive (per copy of all the data). > There is no consumer-friendly process of archiving things - you can try burning it to optical, but will there be a drive to read it in 50 years? Yeah, probably. I can still find players for Vinyl easily enough. Mind, you'd need to burn the data to one of those fancy M-Discs; normal consumer-writable discs won't last that long.