Good day everyone! I would like to create such an article - a discussion. I don’t know if it will fit the format of the site, but I think it will be interesting and useful for many to find answers to many questions. I did not find a reliable answer to the subsequent question on the net (I probably searched badly).
The question is the following: “On what to store archived data. What will serve as long as possible and will be enough for my lifetime to pass on to children and grandchildren?
The conversation will not be about secret intelligence data, not about the storage of porn, we will talk about everyday things: "Storage of family photos and videos."
I'll start with the fact that I was faced with the fact that the CDs that were recorded as a gift to us at school were decided to be opened after 10 years. Iiii ... as many guessed, one of the 20 pieces was opened ... and then it was broken. Why? Elementary ... It collapsed! THEY collapsed...
I have always believed that storing information on electronic media is the best way, the most compact, the most reliable! Ay no! Magnetic layers are demagnetized, electronic components are discharged, thin reflective layers on CDs change their composition, color, and simply peel off over time. As a result: information “spoils”, and since we live in digital rather than analog time, we lose not a fragment, but almost the entire block. Of course, many will object to me that there are methods for recovering corrupted or partially lost data. Something is being “finished”, something is being read many times in order to capture the residual magnetic disturbances, but this is not serious!
The average household consumer just wants to: 1. Buy 2. Record 3. Open years later and not be disappointed.
Who can advise what?
The Internet gives the following advice:
1. Write good quality BD discs in one pass, and read the data as little as possible and, in principle, hide the disc in a place inaccessible to everyone and everything!
2.SSD drives of good quality, not very high volume, with a backup power supply for the duration of storage.
3.Increasing backups and using cloud services
4. LTO media. Unpopular, expensive, but more durable than many others
5. Perforated tape XD well, it's already like that, from me)))
Waiting for reasonable offers! The question is simple, the situation is complicated ...
Source: habr.com