Rescuing Our Audio History from Melting
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nautil.us
Does anyone here use them for archiving their photos/music/video data? I am less afraid of death itself than of being forgotten afterwards. I need something I can trust my legacy with.
If your really important data, the stuff that you don't want forgotten afterwards, is relatively small (vs. mass market media where there's always more copies out there), I'd go with high quality CD-Rs in environmentally well controlled locations, unless MAM-A Gold DVD recordable media turned out to be a lot more reliable than we expected. Don't know about BD recordable, it's new enough and small enough compared to LTO tape, that it's not currently attractive to me. Of course, you can use several types of media, and you really need geographic dispersion as well.
Tape is fine, as long as you keep renewing it, buying new media and copying your stuff to it. Storing it with two or more high tier cloud providers might also be a good gambit.
Like I mentioned earlier in that thread, most armed clashes between antifa and fascists are probably in Russia. There are more recent examples in the US as well. I won't google for you but they are there. The Russian situation is particularly violent.
(Note, to make sure I reply to replies to an 8 day old post referring to an 164 day old post, you're welcome to ping me by the email in my HN profile info, you were lucky I saw this.)
Not hardly; these were popular home devices in the '60s and per Wikipedia the '50s, my family traded tapes with at least one of my mother's sibling's families back in the '60s, and I got my own TEAC unit no later than Christmas, 1974, by which time the low fidelity tape cassette was becoming a big thing.