#data-preservation

#data-preservation

You must keep copying it over to new generations of media. A hard disk drive might last five years. A tape, well, if you're brave, it might last ten years. But once that lifetime is up, you've got to copy it over. And that, frankly, is both difficult and tremendously unsustainable if you think of all that energy and resource we're using.

"I did once open a box to find a moth had nested inside and feasted on the paper... the tape was too fragile to handle and essentially useless."