Should you store treasured data on disks?

[David Gerard]

On 26 June 2010 14:02, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> If a disk is advertised as "archival", with 100 years' life, that
> means the manufacturer did their best to ascertain that it will really
> last that long and that they are making a claim they think is true.


SanDisk have just released a 1GB SD-WORM:

http://www.sandisk.com/business-solutions/sd-worm/

Not cheap (the application is legal-quality evidence), but good enough
to have been endorsed by the Japanese legal system.

What's the life of flash if not written to?


- d.