[PLUG] Reliable long term, off-line storage

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 23:17:24 UTC 2018


For me, I'm going to have all my important data etched onto a metal plate
in raw hexadecimal. That way once our AI creations destroy society, they
can use the image recognition algorithms we gave them to recover my life's
story.


On a more realistic note, smaller RAID devices are popular with the photo
community these days. HDD's tend to last a long time, but its hard to tell
exactly how long. So there are a number of devices on the market that allow
you to insert 2 hard drives and it automatically sets them up as RAID 1
clones. This way, 4 or 5 years from now when you dust off your archive
disks and you hear a loud *thunk* from the head smashing into your magnetic
data, you have a second HDD that is probably fine.

Not a perfect solution, but they do extend the overall lifespan of data
stored on standard HDD/SSD storage.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:03 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 08/27/2018 03:41 PM, Jason Barnett wrote:
> > Even if the USB standard still exists in some form, it will be the
> drivers
> > that will likely be the biggest problem.
>
> I actually had a similar issue last winter. Our vintage 1987 church
> organ fine wore out. Parts were no longer easily available. We were
> offered a digital organ, vintage 2008. It came with a CD with a program
> to be used to "voice" the organ. That program runs on Windows XP. The
> company is still in operation, but the current software does not
> correctly handle our 2008 model. As it happens, I had a laptop, my old
> Acer Aspire, which I asked questions about on this list a good number of
> years ago, and had run Linux Mint on. It does not support newer OSs,
> being only a 32 bit machine. So, long story short, I still had the
> original restore CD for the machine, and was able to load Win XP, and
> the organ voicing software. The organ technician was able to use it. It
> now resides, locked away, in the church basement, with a large note
> instructing anyone who finds it that they must leave it as is to support
> the organ. We may never need to use it again, but if we do, that is
> likely the only tool available to do the job. Even the organ tech
> doesn't have a copy anymore.
>
> Fun with advancing technology.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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