Better option? Certainly not TAPE or electromechanical disk drive. CD's and DVD's don't last nearly that long and James Holton has pointed out.
I suppose there might be a "cloud" solution where you rely upon data just floating around out there in cyberspace with a life of its own.
Richard
On Dec 12, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Dale Tronrud wrote:
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> Good luck on your search in 100 years for a computer with a
> USB port. You will also need software that can read a FAT32
> file system.
>
> Dale "Glad I didn't buy a lot of disk drives with Firewire" Tronrud
>
> On 12/12/2012 1:02 PM, Richard Gillilan wrote:
>> SanDisk advertises a "Memory Vault" disk for archival storage of photos that they claim will last 100 years.
>>
>> (note: they do have a scheme for estimating lifetime of the memory, Arrhenius Equation ... interesting. Check it out: www.sandisk.com/products/usb/memory-vault/ and click the Chronolock tab.).
>>
>> Has anyone here looked into this or seen similar products?
>>
>> Richard Gillilan
>> MacCHESS
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