Put a well printed book on the shelf for 500 years. Then take it down, open it and you’ll be able to read it. Put your most valuable data on a disk drive, or a DVD, or a thumb drive. Wait five years and then try to read it. Maybe you’ll be lucky, maybe you won’t.
Is that any way to run a digital civilization? Clearly, we need something better. A lot better. That something better may be here. It is a DVD, and soon to be a Blu-ray disc, disc, with a claimed life of 1000 years. From a company called M-DISC.
Riiight. I’m sure this comes with a money back guarantee if it fails in 558 years, huh? Now about that bridge…
It comes with a lifetime warranty – yours.
Heard about this before. Stronger laser = more fun hacking to do MUAHAAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
If they can get the price down to a reasonable level, I could see using this for archiving family videos and pictures. I have only ever had 1 dvd go bad in all the years I have been using them so I am not to concerned anyway.
Last I checked, the storage environment has more to do with storage longevity than anything. Put a book in a cool relatively dry place and it will last indefinitely. The same goes for magnetic storage, adding a Faraday cage to shield from magnetic fields. I worked on mainframes for Unisys and had backup disks that worked twenty five years later.