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by harry_ord 756 days ago
Apart from written down/printed well is there any other really reliable long term storage?
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Archival quality blu-ray (such as M-DISKs) can purportedly last hundreds of years and will outlast any electromagnetic events that would destroy other magnetic/electric-based storage mediums. As others in the thread mention, the key difficulty is reading and interpreting the etched pits on the disk hundreds of years after the spec is obsolete.