Or... (gasp) store a regular USB drive in a freezer, yes? If the
relationship between data decay rate and temperature indeed follows the
same good old Arrhenius formula then any old USB drive is virtually endless
at -80C and safe for human life span at -20 (i.e. kitchen freezer, sans
defrost cycles (so pack your USB in some ice packs so defrost doesn't kill
it).

If this works, feel free to send me money, SanDisk...

Artem

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Richard Gillilan <r...@cornell.edu> wrote:

> SanDisk advertises a "Memory Vault" disk for archival storage of photos
> that they claim will last 100 years.
>
> (note: they do have a scheme for estimating lifetime of the memory,
> Arrhenius Equation ... interesting. Check it out:
> www.sandisk.com/products/usb/memory-vault/ and click the Chronolock tab.).
>
> Has anyone here looked into this or seen similar products?
>
> Richard Gillilan
> MacCHESS
>

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