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Do you still use older storage for archives/backups etc?
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I prefer optical media if possible. Should survive a few decades, assuming good quality discs.
But I'd much rather use LTO tape if it wasn't so expensive to get the drive.
Just the other day I came across some CDs that I used to back up some important data about 15 years ago (and which I thought I'd lost). They were absolutely pristine ๐
I found my secondary school Video Production movies I made with my best friend 20 years ago haphazardly thrown into a spindle and I was able to rip it perfectly. I was ELATED. They are even better than I remembered before watching them again.
That's really cool :D The creative photography that I've rediscovered has given me a reinvigorated sense of my artistic self-woth. The Hi-8 tape footage i've processed so far is more candid and bit of a mind-warp though...
Hell yeah! DO A ART, you only become better every time you do it! I am HORRIBLE at art but I was extremely great at video editing back in the day. Shoulda kept up at it!
DVD's will last about 15 years tops. I bought the highest quality 100 year rated AZZO dye DVDs. I used special tools from cdforums to make sure I burned at the speed that resulted in the lowest pi/pio errors rate ( the errors you don't normally see because they're corrected in drive). The ideal speed isn't the slowest or fastest based on the drive and the media. I stored the DVDs in black dvd cases in my temperature controlled basement.
They all started having errors after 10 years.
Email the company -- out of business? Lol
Verbatim is still around. They still say, "Up to 100 years". 10 years is up to 100 years.
Play the lottery. You could win up to $1M dollars.
With the lottery, you could also just win $1M dollars (assuming that's the jackpot). But I get your point.
It seems like an unlikely claim from them given your experience, but are they still going to be around 100 years after making that claim? And if they are, is anyone who cares going to be around to call them out on it? Lol
Second vote for LTO. Stable and cheap medium. If only drives were cheaper.