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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I remember cataloging and transferring a bunch of a laboratory's "Bernoulli" cartridges to Zip because they worried that they wouldn't be able to replace the Bernoulli drive if/when it failed. Then to CD, because it was incomprehensible that optical drives would go the way of the floppy. Probably a decade of data, and I think it fit on like 20 CDROMs.

For a while, I thought it was ok to just keep everything on multiple hard drives, but now it would take a special effort to get data off those IDE HDDs. And SSDs decay if not powered. It's hard to keep electronic data for 100 years.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I bought into the carbon-based BluRay discs. Good for 1000 years, right? ;) I haven't ever checked them since writing data to them.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    It's sad that optical media storage is essentially dead now. I burned a zillion cds over the years, and 99% of them were perfect even 10 years later. And at some point i started adding 10% PAR2 files to the discs, which made it so even if up to 10% of the cd was totally unreadable you could still recover 100% of the data. Heck, PAR2 file software becoming abandoned hurts at least as much.

    Does anyone know of a modern version of PAR2 files?

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