Hacker News with Generative AI: Archival

M-DISC: The storage medium that lasts 1000 years (wikipedia.org)
M-DISC (Millennial Disc) is a write-once optical disc technology introduced in 2009 by Millenniata, Inc.[1] and available as DVD and Blu-ray discs.[2]
Storage, Technology, Hardware, Data Storage, Archival
11 points by popcalc 65 days ago | 2 comments
Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives (mixonline.com)
New York, NY (August 19, 2024)—A few years ago, archiving specialist Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services did a survey of its vaults and discovered an alarming trend: Of the thousands and thousands of archived hard disk drives from the 1990s that clients ask the company to work on, around one-fifth are unreadable.
Data Storage, Technology, Archival, Hardware
197 points by severine 74 days ago | 201 comments
How to Preserve Physical Photos (ente.io)
Photography, Preservation, Archival
78 points by goodburb 124 days ago | 41 comments