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I feel conflicted - preservation is a worthy effort indeed, but space is a problem. I barely have space for my current stuff, and most of my non-laptops are Com
by flyinghamster 4y ago
I feel conflicted - preservation is a worthy effort indeed, but space is a problem. I barely have space for my current stuff, and most of my non-laptops are Computers of Theseus as it is. The only thing my family ever had that was "historically significant" was an Apple II, now long gone.
For most of us, the more pressing concern is data preservation. It's a crying shame that tape drives are so expensive, given the dirt-cheap-per-gigabyte media. About the only thing I can afford to use as a backup medium is hard drives and ZFS.
The clown, er, cloud is not an option. Between the issues of trusting third parties, the speed of data transfer, and the potential cost of data transfer, I'm just going to say no.
- rbanffy 4y agoI don't care that much for the Computers of Theseus - we keep them working in whatever way we can. And indeed, past the IBM PC's explosion, there aren't many significant computers or that are actually unique - Macs, UNIX workstations, that Unisys ISA board that has an A-series mainframe on it, IBM's counterpart (with a 370) and a few others that earn a place in history by some unique design or historical accident. And data. I'm thinking about BD archive, but most of the time it's local hard disks with BtrFS or ZFS with snapshots stored in Amazon Glacier and other similar services.