Digital data has the potential to remain completely stable for thousands of generations with constant copying to new hardware

superweeniehutjrs , 15 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

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Reality is complex

ViscloReader , 11 hours ago

🤓here it is without share id

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Carighan , 14 hours ago

Yes and no. It’s not incorrect, but the issue is said hardware degrading and constantly needing to move the data to a new medium. Always has been, pretty much.

Thorry84 , 12 hours 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 , 11 hours 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.

possiblylinux127 OP , 5 hours ago

That’s why you would need corruption detection with multiple copies in raid.

So pretty much ZFS

count_dongulus , 4 hours 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 OP , 3 hours ago

It depends on the conditions. At the end of they DAT it will fail at some point.