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Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap?

Posted by timothy on from the lazarus-brand-only-goes-a-few-days dept.

AlHunt writes "I've been tasked with finding a way to bury digitally stored photographs in a small underground time capsule to be opened in 25 years. It looks like we'll be using a steel vessel, welded closed. I've thought of CDs, DVDs, a hard drive, or a thumb drive — but they all have drawbacks, not the least of which is outdated technology 25 years from now. Maybe I'll put a CD and a CD-ROM drive in the capsule and hope that the IDE interface is still around in 25 years? Ideas and feedback will be appreciated."

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  1. Oh for God's sake! What's the big deal???? by rboatright · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh for God's sake...

    It's ONLY 25 years.

    I have FLOPPIES from 1983 I can still read.
    We had someone bring in CP/M floppies from '82 the other day. We read them.

    I have AUDIO TAPE from 1983 I can still listen to.

    I have compact disks from 1986, 22 years, that are still perfectly listenable.

    Are you all CHILDREN that you think that 25 years is a long time?

    Put your stuff on a CD. Send it to a pressing company. Get back commercially pressed disks. If you're worried, include 2. Jeeze.