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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 I've thought of CDs, DVDs, a hard drive, or a thumb drive — but they all have drawbacks, not the least of which is outdated technology 25 years from now.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. Why choose one? by LionKimbro · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Perhaps put the same data in multiple forms: CD, DVD, Blue-Ray, USB key, hard disk, ...

    Perhaps even include a complete bootable computer that starts into a web server, serving the images.

    And then as the last resort, print-outs of the images.