From: Nux Vomica Subject: Re: Alternative to Optical Storage???? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <3NmdnUtfTvJIsmP7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 50 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.usenetexpress.com!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:13:29 +0000 Nntp-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:13:29 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2424 Organization: UsenetExpress - www.usenetexpress.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetexpress.com Bytes: 2743 On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 01:47:00 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > > It's a SERIOUS PROBLEM. We make SO much data now, > SUCH volume, and at least SOME of it IS important > for both legal and historical reasons - yet there > are NO really good archival media. > Very well stated. This was, of course, the real subject of my original post. I would guess that human beings (a.k.a. Homo sapiens) are not very far sighted. We witness this in societal reactions to COVID-19 and global warming. It seems that human civilization is not capable at all of being proactive. > > Optical disks - esp M-Disks - can LAST ... but they > are LOW-DENSITY by today's defs by a BIG margin. > It's also not clear if you'd be able to FIND a > DVD reader device 25 years from now. Even most > current PCs/laptops don't COME with those anymore. > BDR optical disks have enough capacity to easily deal with business, government, or personal documents. It is only when we consider multimedia files, especially videos, that we run into problems. > > The Library Of Congress and Smithsonian are FREAKIN' > at this point. SO much historical data - but they > can't even find the hardware/drivers to READ the > often-proprietary media. > This is another story that needs to be covered. How will these and other institutions solve the problem and how can any solutions be extended to personal computing? But since consumer-grade computing is dominated by fashion and fad, it's not likely that the grubbing corps will produce long-term storage technology. -- Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.