On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 12:48 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2010 10:36:47 Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > I guess it really depends on what you try to achieve. Afaik the average > > life-span of a HD is puny 2 years. From what I heard the magnetic tapes > > used by for example ESA a long time ago have a life-span of 80 years. If > > 'store it good and forget' is what you're after then tape seems like a > > good idea. > > If you want long-time storage of information, the only thing that has proven > stable so far is (micro-)film or print to paper (with laser-printer).
Assumed the micro-film is stored air-conditioned and the paper isn't low cost copy paper from the supermarket, that will moldered at least after 50 years, even if you'll store it air-conditioned. For paper you need very expensive paper. Micro-film IMO is the better choice, but anyway delicate if there should be an 'event' during storage. Arnold from DE, remember the archive at Cologne ;). http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611158,00.html They could save documents for the moment, made of very good paper, but anyway it's not sure that those documents can be saved for a long time, after they get wet. > Its no use when the tape holds the information for 80 years when the drives > and connected hardware are obsolete and out-of-production after max of 20 > years... > > Have fun, > > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
