I think the breakeven is generally around 50 years. However, it introduces the possibility that records won’t survive the government, and a plethora of other i

I think the breakeven is generally around 50 years. However, it introduces the possibility that records won’t survive the government, and a plethora of other issues that come along with locking into a storage format, the progression of technology, etc. Bear in mind the average age of countries is only 158 years globally. It’s not as cut and dry as it initially appears. Everyone is telling me how obvious it is to gain the cost savings, and perhaps it is. But it is by no means as clear cut, especially when you consider the solution of keeping both but reducing the cost of physical archives to pure storage only post-digitization to be a default against destruction. That use case complicates everything. We also have a boatload of experience maintaining paper records and libraries. We don’t have nearly the track record with digital. https://lifeshareproject.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/physical-conservation-vs-digital-preservation-a-cost-comparison/ https://lifeshareproject.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/physical-c...