Re: [PLUG] Back Up Medium - Only 1 is 100% Reliable in 20 Years

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:50 AM Syeed Ali via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 06:40:00 -0400
> Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> > What media do you use to back-up data that is 100% guaranteed to be
> > machine readable in 20 years, no matter what the type of data you need
> > to save?  [The data can be numeric, photographs, videos, etc, etc,]
> >
> > The answer is not floppies, tape, HDDs, SDDs, the cloud, or USB
> > drives. The answer is PAPER.
>
> paper bitrot is the worst.

Pretty sure the per-TB marginal cost is pretty astronomical as well.
It would be cheaper to just stock a museum full of tape drives just in
case.

-- 
Rich
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