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Burn everything important onto some old CDs or DVDs, that should be good enough. Filecoin seems cool too, but you have to pay in filecoin.
by wan_ala 4y ago
Burn everything important onto some old CDs or DVDs, that should be good enough. Filecoin seems cool too, but you have to pay in filecoin.
- mceachen 4y agoMost writable optical media use organic dyes that aren’t stable for more than a couple years—if you can still read the contents 10 years later, consider yourself lucky. M-DISC use a more stable media, and should last much longer, but are (much) more expensive and require more recent burners. There are dual-layer M-DISC with higher capacities, too. I did a bunch of research on long-term data archival and wrote it up here: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/ https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/