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Please #boost. I'm looking for devices for storing long-term digital archives of files (text, PDF, etc, nothing exotic). Needs to be fairly futureproof. Probably doesn't need to be super high capacity (but it can be). I know certain kinds of optical media are designed for long-term storage, but I doubt our ability to find the right kind of drives in ten or twenty years, thus thinking USB will be a fairly stable physical interface. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
Doesn't have to be bottom-of-the-barrel; if (say) a typical USB stick isn't likely to work long term but some other USB-readable device is, I can look into that.
EDIT: After some reading I'm leaning toward an HDD, in FAT32 or EXFAT format, in a USB enclosure, with written instructions to spin it up once a year and reproduce it on new media every five years.
#archives #digitalArchiving #digitalArchives #askFedi #storage #DigitalPreservation
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