I’m old enough that we used floppy and then CD/DVD drives for storage, and then flash drives and external hard drives. But I recently was told those aren’t good long term storage options (ex: family photos or sensitive documents). Why are they poor options for long term storage, and what should be used instead?
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Anything you store your data on is going to degrade over time. Also, it will become obsolete. Even, for example, if your 51/4 floppy was still good now, how would you read it now?
Store your data in two or three places, physically separate, and upgrade that medium, copying over the data to new media, every few years.
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