In reality it is more complex but the possibility is there
youtu.be/jmaUIyvy8E8?si=5uC8JB-VSY6zyQDm
Reality is complex
Digital data has the potential to remain completely stable for thousands of generations with constant copying to new hardware
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superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ViscloReader@lemmy.world 3 months ago
🤓here it is without share id
Waveform@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s always 5D Optical Data Storage, which might store data in glass for billions of years. (It’s not really 5D; it’s composed of discrete nanostructures which have five attributes.)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
That’s actually pretty crazy
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Doesn’t tape last a super, super long time? I thought that was of the reason for the resurgence of tape for archive storage.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
It depends on the conditions. At the end of they DAT it will fail at some point.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well, you can always get archival M-DISC. www.mdisc.com Treated special materials to resist moisture and UV degradation. Should last 1000 years if not tampered with. Idk what the read/write speeds are, but they offer a 100GB bluray disc option.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 months ago
In theory yes, in practice no. The concept of bit rot is known to anyone with a lot of data.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hence why they said with constant copying to new hardware.
Though historically you could say the same with old written text, they could also be copied but humans are lazy and not very good at future proofing. One day the Vatican library will go up in smoke and we’ll have once again lost some of our history.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Plenty of which no one is allowed access to anyway, IIRC.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
That’s why you would need corruption detection with multiple copies in raid.