Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 09:13 UTC, submitted by irbis
What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive? The concern for archivists and information scientists is that, with ever-shifting platforms and file formats, much of the data we produce today could eventually fall into a black hole of inaccessibility.
Permalink for comment 336837
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2005-07-06
the problem i see with hardrives is that if the read heads or control electronics dies, there is just no way to take the plates out, pop them into a new case and power back up.
with a optical disk you do not have any dedicated read hardware. any optical drive that can read the format will do.
now the survivability of the disks themselves, thats a whole different story...