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Originally Posted by Excaliber
...not sure a hard drive will last 50 to 100 years without bearings or something similiar siezing up. BOTH methods also assume we will have an operating system (Windows 2100?) that will still read either device!  Of course data CAN be retrieved from a hard drive even if the drive has been under water and often even in a fire. The data recovery is expensive however. Are the 'platers' that store the data on a hard drive more secure than a DVD locked away from sunlight, seldom or never played? Will anyone CARE 100 years from now?  Hmmmmm.... |
I think the most important morale of this story is that you back up your data somehow and keep it off site (in case of fire), and continually update the way you back things up as technology improves, and makes various media obsolete. Not too long ago, I wa backed up on those 100 MB "zip" disks, and before that little 1.2 MB floppies
Way before digi pics ate up multiple gigabytes.
Lets see, 3 DVDs now, about 14 GB, would be about 12,000 floppy disks!! Barely 1 digi pic per floppy......
Mark