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Preserving analog data also requires maintenance, except digital maintenance is much easier to do and can be, at least partially, automated, while analog mainte
by kouru225 3y ago
Preserving analog data also requires maintenance, except digital maintenance is much easier to do and can be, at least partially, automated, while analog maintenance is specialty work that can’t be automated at all.
- asdff 3y agoDigital data still requires hardware that needs maintenance. Besides what is going to be archived over time will be things people consider significant in some way, not joe shmoes harddrive.
- kouru225 3y agoWhat I was pointing out was that you can actually see the fact that the hard drives are designed to be replaced as a positive rather than a negative. It means that the data can be moved from drive to drive without much hassle.
- fomine3 3y agoAnalog: Some media remain without maintenance but harder to copy Digital: No media remain without maintenance but easy to copy, but also we don't copy (except Archivists)