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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 21:50:56 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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   • robin
   • benjojo
   • Dec.tar.bz2

   @nottrobin @dec23k @benjojo

   Eeeeh, I don't think there's really a right/wrong answer here (except for never using solid state for anything you're going to power down.)

   Bitrot sets in at about the 20 year mark for some older burnable discs.

   Can even be an issue with commercial data discs, which is why I'm involved in a project to obtain, copy and archive unpreserved CD ROM software from the 90s.

   Spinning rust disks are pretty good in the long term, if powered down, but there's fundamentally a situation where, whatever you store media on, you need to move it every 15 - 25 years.

   Blu-ray might be our best long-term storage medium, but we just don't have the data yet, and it costs.

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     robin (nottrobin@union.place)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 21:50:57 JST robin

     • benjojo
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     @dec23k @HauntedOwlbear @benjojo yep, true. I don't actually own any vinyl. But I can understand the aesthetic appreciation for them better.

     But I now realise how wrong I was about optical media being a bad long term storage - it's actually the best for long term storage. So it all makes sense now, my bad.

     Apologies.