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March 29, 2005

Should optical discs last forever?

C|net: “One should consider the issues of digital obsolescence and migration,” the survey says. “Is 100 years (or ‘forever’) really practical for typical long-term digital storage strategies? While you may need to preserve data for a particular length of time, is it really necessary to preserve that data on any particular technology or can it be migrated to newer technologies?”

Posted by Oleg Ivrii at March 29, 2005 09:16 PM



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