The question is: “How to store archive data. What will serve as long as possible and will last for my life to pass on to children and grandchildren? ”
The conversation will not be about secret intelligence data, not about porn storage, we’ll talk about everyday life: “Storage of family photos and videos.”
To begin with, I was faced with the fact that we decided to open the CDs that were recorded as a gift to us at school in 10 years. Iiiii ... as many have guessed, one of 20 pieces opened ... and then it’s broken. Why? Elementary ... He collapsed! THEY collapsed ...
I always thought that storing information on electronic media is the best way, the most compact, the most reliable! Ah no! Magnetic layers are demagnetized, electronic components are discharged, thin reflective layers on compact discs change their composition, color, and simply peel off over time. As a result: the information is "spoiled", and since we live in digital rather than analog time, we are not losing a fragment, but almost the entire block. Of course, many will object to me that there are techniques for recovering corrupted or partially lost data. Something is "finished up", something is read multiple times in order to catch the residual magnetic waves, but this is not serious!
An ordinary consumer wants simply: 1. To purchase 2. To record 3. To open in many years and not to be disappointed.
Who can advise what?
The Internet gives the following tips:
1. Write to BD discs of good quality, in one pass, and as little as possible to read data and, in principle, hide the disc in a place inaccessible from everyone and everything!
2.SSD disks of good quality, not very high volume, with redundant power supply for storage.
3. Increase backups and use of cloud services
4. LTO carriers. Unpopular, expensive, but more durable than many others
5. Punched tapes XD well this is already so, from me)))
Waiting for reasonable offers! The question is simple, the situation is complicated ...