[SOLVED] what's the most resilient form of cold data storage?

[CarlWerthers]

mechanical hard drives are pretty vulnerable to corrosion related mechanical failure, but SSDs are vulnerable in general. what's the most resilient storage technology if it is going to sit unplugged on a shelf for many years?

 

[Flayed]

mechanical hard drives are pretty vulnerable to corrosion related mechanical failure, but SSDs are vulnerable in general. what's the most resilient storage technology if it is going to sit unplugged on a shelf for many years?

Etching your data onto stone tablets

 

[USAFRet]

mechanical hard drives are pretty vulnerable to corrosion related mechanical failure, but SSDs are vulnerable in general. what's the most resilient storage technology if it is going to sit unplugged on a shelf for many years?

I wouldn't trust any single instance of data, on any type of device, to be guaranteed readable in "many years".

SSD, HDD, archive DVD, whatever....
A single instance of your data on a shelf is subject to go bye bye.

What is your actual use case for "many years"?

 

[CarlWerthers]

I wouldn't trust any single instance of data, on any type of device, to be guaranteed readable in "many years".

SSD, HDD, archive DVD, whatever....
A single instance of your data on a shelf is subject to go bye bye.

What is your actual use case for "many years"?

i want to archive the cutting room floor of my audio and video editing. Mostly stuff I'll never look at again, but there might be some instance like 20 years down the road where I want to pull some old footage/audio.

 

[kanewolf]

i want to archive the cutting room floor of my audio and video editing. Mostly stuff I'll never look at again, but there might be some instance like 20 years down the road where I want to pull some old footage/audio.

The problem with "20 years down the road" is that any device may not have a compatible interface. You should look for a 3-5 year solution. Then read/validate/rewrite all your data.

 

[USAFRet]

i want to archive the cutting room floor of my audio and video editing. Mostly stuff I'll never look at again, but there might be some instance like 20 years down the road where I want to pull some old footage/audio.

I have data on my NAS box from the early 90's.
Family pics, development files, etc, etc.

The reason I have this and it is still known accessible is because it has moved from device to device over the years.
If I had laid down an HDD or CD in 1996 with this data, and only tried to access it today, 20+ years later...I'd be surprised if it actually worked.
Or if I had a system with a viable interface to access that ancient HDD.

Have the data...have more than one copy.
Move it between devices every couple of years, as technology progresses.

 

[popatim]

This is showing promise and the French extreme testing facility has rated it at 1000+ hours.
M-Disc which is supposed to have 1000 yrs of archival storage ability began having excessive error ratted just after 250 hrs of testing which lumps it back with the other conventional archival media types.

I use mdisc but I burn new master sets (2 copies) every year or two. One goes offsite.
The non-master set is in spinning discs in my NAS and backed up nightly and my workstations archival drives which only gets backed up when changes are made

I figure if I cant restore data, then the nukes got me too,

 

[CarlWerthers]

This is showing promise and the French extreme testing facility has rated it at 1000+ hours.
M-Disc which is supposed to have 1000 yrs of archival storage ability began having excessive error ratted just after 250 hrs of testing which lumps it back with the other conventional archival media types.

I use mdisc but I burn new master sets (2 copies) every year or two. One goes offsite.
The non-master set is in spinning discs in my NAS and backed up nightly and my workstations archival drives which only gets backed up when changes are made

I figure if I cant restore data, then the nukes got me too,

can you detail the various pieces of hardware you are talking about?

 

[popatim]

Mdisk capable bluray burner drives and mdisk disks. My drives are older LG's that have proven how reliable they are. My Mdisks are Ridata but you'll need specific part numbers which IO currently dont have acess to.

Nas = low end AMD rig (triple core) You don't need a lot of processing power to store data uncompressed.

Workstation = 8core/16 thread intel system, 32gb ram & 20 TB of archival space in addtion to the 3 SSD raid0 arrays and two external 8TB backup drives.. This is my photo & video editing rig.

 

[CarlWerthers]

what technology are the workstation archival drives?