![]() ![]() But always onto new media? As in, chuck my 128GB USB drive and get a new one every decade? That seems kinda silly. I have no problem "touching" them occasionally. Some splices broke, but I am told those splices preserve less well than the film. My 8mm movies were 100% playable according to the service who did the port. Mitigation of those concerns are completely separate issues than digital data preservation. But they are only 4.7GB each.įire/flood/theft/obsolescence aren't my concern here. Sorry, but M-disks are 100% guaranteed to last that long without being touched. It would be nice to see a contemporary essay about digital archiving strategies. Refresh the bits, and because you're doing it very infrequently, you aren't degrading the cells. As in, rewrite the whole thing every decade. I'm wondering if properly maintained USB drives are the way to go. Seems to be an issue of cell leakage and cell degradation from lots of writes. USB drives sound good, but everyone seems to say that they won't hold data for more than a decade. ![]() ![]() If a bearing goes out, you've lost your data, even if the magnetic domains are solid.Ĭloud storage is fine, but you're just depending on someone else to do it responsibly. Hard drives are OK, but I'm uncomfortable with mechanical devices. But with a capacity of only a few gigs, it takes many of them. Right now, I'm using M-disks, which look like a pretty good solution. There will always be someone around who can read a floppy disk or digitize 8mm movies (just did that for 70 year old movies). I'd like a strategy that will assure it's viability decades from now. I'm trying to resolve the best archival strategy for data. ![]()
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