Better option? Certainly not TAPE or electromechanical disk drive. CD's and DVD's don't last nearly that long and James Holton has pointed out.
I suppose there might be a "cloud" solution where you rely upon data just floating around out there in cyberspace with a life of its own. Richard On Dec 12, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Dale Tronrud wrote: > > Good luck on your search in 100 years for a computer with a > USB port. You will also need software that can read a FAT32 > file system. > > Dale "Glad I didn't buy a lot of disk drives with Firewire" Tronrud > > On 12/12/2012 1:02 PM, Richard Gillilan wrote: >> SanDisk advertises a "Memory Vault" disk for archival storage of photos that >> they claim will last 100 years. >> >> (note: they do have a scheme for estimating lifetime of the memory, >> Arrhenius Equation ... interesting. Check it out: >> www.sandisk.com/products/usb/memory-vault/ and click the Chronolock tab.). >> >> Has anyone here looked into this or seen similar products? >> >> Richard Gillilan >> MacCHESS >>
