Storing Data For the Next 1,000 Years

An anonymous reader writes "This may be an interesting take on creating long-term storage technologies. A team of researchers at UCSC claims to have come up with a power-efficient, scalable way to reliably store data for a theoretical 1,400 years with regular hard drives. TG Daily has an article describing this technology and it sounds intriguing as it uses self-contained but networked storage units. It looks like a complicated solution, but the approach is manageable and may be an effective solution to preserve your data for decades and possibly centuries." Nice to see research on this using the kinds of real-world figures for disk lifetimes that recent studies have been turning up.

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Re:Sometimes old tech is best

[martin-boundary]

Why not microscopic etching. One advantage over the stone and chisel approach is that you can carry the mountain in your pocket until the next civilization figures out how to read it...