Make it easier using (say) ownCloud and just keep "fixing" the targets. ![]() I'd stick with the NAS, perhaps with a second off-site unit set for automatic backups or replication or something. As for optical drives in laptops, they've been on the way out for perhaps five years now, and for those still buying desktops they are often optional. Present day ubiquity doesn't guarantee long term longevity, though I'll grant that in the medium term finding a second hand "reader" can be useful. VHS anyone? Would you know where to lay your hands on a working, safe, VHS player these days? Can you lay your hands on one now? Even if it works, can you lay your hands on a working interface? I'd say that the last new system I saw with a 5.25" drive fitted was perhaps somewhere around 1995 - that's only 21 years ago and yet now the once ubiquitous system is next to impossible to find. every laptop and desktop I've had in the last 15 years has had one,Īlmost every desktop had a 5.25" floppy drive from the early 1980s right up until the early 1990s, and many had them beyond that. ![]() it's got be getting close to a dozen DVD drives at least, and I'm just one person. every laptop and desktop I've had in the last 15 years has had one, various units under the television, a games console or two. The same is true iof the BBC LaserDisc-based hybrid digital data and analogue video overlay system used in the 1980s BBC Domesday project.ĭVD drives are so common today that finding one in 50 years time (if only to reverse-engineer a non-functioning one) is likely to be easy. That was a system only used by a small number of people. >(google for heroic efforts to extract data from old NASA tapes). If one uses a more capable but lesser-used file system, would it result in a greater headache for future librarians? ![]() I'm no expert, but what are the possibilities of bitrot when copying DVDs from generation to the next? Or rather, how does one ( by choice choice of file system, method of error checking when making new copies etc) limit/eliminate the impact of small errors on compressed (jpg etc) files?
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