You know if you took a dremel to an insulated benchtop cold box to make USB shaped holes, lined the bottom with a layer of desiccant, and used a little vacuum grease to seal it up you might actually have a workable, long term, freezer storage system.
Wow, the things you think up when you're avoiding grant writing. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Roger Rowlett <rrowl...@colgate.edu> wrote: > Maybe the memory chips will retain their bits for 100 years, but what > about the driver hardware or internal power supply? Anyone had an > electrolytic capacitor last for 100 years? Just sayin... > > I like the image of the USB sticks in the -80 freezer, though. :) > _______________________________________ > Roger S. Rowlett > Gordon & Dorothy Kline Professor > Department of Chemistry > Colgate University > 13 Oak Drive > Hamilton, NY 13346 > > tel: (315)-228-7245 > ofc: (315)-228-7395 > fax: (315)-228-7935 > email: rrowl...@colgate.edu > > > > On 12/12/2012 4:38 PM, Artem Evdokimov wrote: > > 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 >> > > >
