For me, I'm going to have all my important data etched onto a metal plate in raw hexadecimal. That way once our AI creations destroy society, they can use the image recognition algorithms we gave them to recover my life's story.
On a more realistic note, smaller RAID devices are popular with the photo community these days. HDD's tend to last a long time, but its hard to tell exactly how long. So there are a number of devices on the market that allow you to insert 2 hard drives and it automatically sets them up as RAID 1 clones. This way, 4 or 5 years from now when you dust off your archive disks and you hear a loud *thunk* from the head smashing into your magnetic data, you have a second HDD that is probably fine. Not a perfect solution, but they do extend the overall lifespan of data stored on standard HDD/SSD storage. On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:03 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/27/2018 03:41 PM, Jason Barnett wrote: > > Even if the USB standard still exists in some form, it will be the > drivers > > that will likely be the biggest problem. > > I actually had a similar issue last winter. Our vintage 1987 church > organ fine wore out. Parts were no longer easily available. We were > offered a digital organ, vintage 2008. It came with a CD with a program > to be used to "voice" the organ. That program runs on Windows XP. The > company is still in operation, but the current software does not > correctly handle our 2008 model. As it happens, I had a laptop, my old > Acer Aspire, which I asked questions about on this list a good number of > years ago, and had run Linux Mint on. It does not support newer OSs, > being only a 32 bit machine. So, long story short, I still had the > original restore CD for the machine, and was able to load Win XP, and > the organ voicing software. The organ technician was able to use it. It > now resides, locked away, in the church basement, with a large note > instructing anyone who finds it that they must leave it as is to support > the organ. We may never need to use it again, but if we do, that is > likely the only tool available to do the job. Even the organ tech > doesn't have a copy anymore. > > Fun with advancing technology. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
