On Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 4:16:41 AM UTC-7 TiddlyTweeter wrote:
> > > USB is solid state storage. It is finite. Its longevity is not good if you > want something working in 100 years or even 15. > > Just FYI, for photographs of the art of Angela Weyersberg, I will burn > Blu-ray "M-Disks" that have a life of (claimed) of up to 1000 years. > Whether any internet 2021 browser in 3021 would work is a moot point. :-) > PRINTING them out too would be advisable :-). > > My experience with disks ended with writable DVDs. I don't know if Blue ray was better, but I found they often had many, many errors. Often a disk would be unreadable by other DVD players. The moveable heads in the players/writers would easily go out of adjustment. I remember spending a miserable afternoon with a pile of unusable discs. By contrast, most of my solid state USB's have at least worked at a minimal level. Errors in flash drive's accumulate as they are used, rather than as they sit in a box. So I suspect a stick kept in a cool, dry place wrapped in foil or some other Faraday cage should survive well. Take them out every decade and re-record to a new stick. Re your dad's book. Catch-22. If no one takes it out, they throw it out because it is irrelevant. If people do check it out, then the book becomes lost or too ratty. You know, I think gutenberg may accept new books if the holder of the copyright is willing to relinquish the copy rights. They have all sorts of obscure works. Putting your works into the hands of an organization that will, hopefully, carry on generation after generation, might be another stab at immortality. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5cb4980f-d10b-4dfe-9995-2da1ce1e74fcn%40googlegroups.com.
