On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, > breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive dies, it's > gone, very difficult to recover if even possible. I would not recommend > a flash drive (or DVD) alone for long-term storage.
All CD and DVD consumer burnable (R or RW) are not suitable for long term storage. The dyes used are not gonna very long, maybe a few years. If they're kept in the dark at stable temperature, I'd be surprised if they lasted 5 years. Bluray is a different story, and with proper storage shows some promise of being readable for quite a while, but you're gonna have to put a drive, cables, and a computer into cold storage along with the discs so... good luck. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
