[Gllug] Is this a silly (RAID) notion?

[tid]

The national archives website had a fairly comprehensive about the
various media
and how long they lasted. I'd provide the link but I'm typing this on a mobile
phone whilst trying to move away from fasthosts at high speed.

td

On 03/12/2007, Riq <riq at trw.org.uk> wrote:
> I would like to digress from the topic and expand on the remarks by John
> Hearns about transporting magnetic tapes. I was involved in
> similar use of magnetic tapes at CERN in the 60s. The only problem we
> had with temperature was leaving a tape in a car in the sun.
> But we had sometimes to bribe maintenance engineers to misalign a tape
> drive to match the drive the tape was written on.
>
> On a more serious note, is anyone doing any research anywhere on how to
> achieve 'infinitely' long-term digital storage?
> Has anyone a better idea than just copying data from the
> about-to-be-obsolete medium to the just-become-accepted-as-reliable new
> medium
> every few years?
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