I know Microsoft has been working on glass storage under their project silica moniker that they claim has stability measurable in the centuries and really high capacities but I don’t know if it’s deployed anywhere yet.
yeah… i remember being told never to store long-term data on cd-r dvd-rs way back in the early 2000s for the photostudio i was working at because the data would likely be corrupted within 10 - 15 years for most of the discs due to breakdown of the chemicals with time
optical? is that supposed to be more durable? last i knew cds and dvds had a pretty miserable shelf-life
Here’s an article if you want to read more.
https://www.howtogeek.com/858426/whats-the-best-way-to-store-data-for-decades-or-centuries/
They last pretty long when not exposed to your car floor or living room shelves
unless you’re stamping them, the chemical dyes used in dvd/cd-r/rw degrades fairly quickly iirc
Yeah, there are cd’s from the eighties and nineties that have started shitting the bed already, which in the grand scheme of things is very quickly
I know Microsoft has been working on glass storage under their project silica moniker that they claim has stability measurable in the centuries and really high capacities but I don’t know if it’s deployed anywhere yet.
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yeah… i remember being told never to store long-term data on cd-r dvd-rs way back in the early 2000s for the photostudio i was working at because the data would likely be corrupted within 10 - 15 years for most of the discs due to breakdown of the chemicals with time