My father told me he wanted to make USB flash drives of all the scanned and digitized family photos and other assorted letters and mementos. He planned to distribute them to all family members hoping that at least one set would survive. When I explained that they ought to be recipes to new media every N number of years or risk deteriorating or becoming unreadable (like a floppy disk when you have no floppy drive), he was genuinely shocked. He lost interest in the project that he’d thought was so bullet proof.

  • Zoot
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    5 days ago

    You have to hope neither goes out of business either.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      That’s why you have 2, there’s no solution for long term storage that requires zero checking on things that I can think of.