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• bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not to take away form your point at all, but optical media degrades, too. Usually much slower, though. In the long run, regular transferal between backups is the only option. ~In the long-long run, we will succeed in preserving nothing and all traces of our existence will be obscured!~

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, thats my point.

    You have maybe a year, if you’re lucky, on a flash drive… and very few’d probably make it that far, and the ones that did would be egregiously expensive.

    on optical media you have time that can be measured in decades, possibly even a century if proper storage practices are used.

    That is a significant difference in stability

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• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One time programmable flash could be a good a solution to this

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