Mark S. wrote: > TiddlyTweeter wrote: > >> USB is solid state storage. It is finite. Its longevity is not good if >> you want something working in 100 years or even 15. >> >> Just FYI, for photographs of the art of Angela Weyersberg, I will burn >> Blu-ray "M-Disks" that have a life of (claimed) of up to 1000 years. >> Whether any internet 2021 browser in 3021 would work is a moot point. :-) >> PRINTING them out too would be advisable :-). >> >
> My experience with disks ended with writable DVDs. I don't know if Blue > ray was better, but I found they often had many, many errors. Often a disk > would be unreadable by other DVD players. The moveable heads in the > players/writers would easily go out of adjustment. > True! I constantly watch movies for my work. I get through about 3 cheap computer DVD players a year. The ones you plug into a TV, rather than computer, are slightly more robust. About 1 every two years needs replacing. > ... I suspect a stick kept in a cool, dry place wrapped in foil or some > other Faraday cage should survive well. Take them out every decade and > re-record to a new stick. > If ONLY your relatives will have your exquisite *Faraday Appreciation! *:-) Re your dad's book. Catch-22. If no one takes it out, they throw it out > because it is irrelevant. If people do check it out, then the book becomes > lost or too ratty. > RIGHT. But an issue that is orthogonal to digital encode. The issue with PHYSICAL STUFF is it can get "lost" or "destroyed" or "uncatalogued" -- BUT it is a quite different issue in the sense the OBJECT is *incarnate already*. My point in the OP was really between the fragility of stuff ON A MACHINE v. MATERIAL EXISTENCE. IMO stuff "on to machine" is far more fragile than many of us *Grok*. Anyway your comments were clarifying. Tx! Best wishes, TT -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ba6bd7ef-e97f-4327-a8aa-d72d4d901d59n%40googlegroups.com.
