Ha ha. Brilliant! Maybe we should just send them up to Svalbard to store with the seeds.
On Dec 12, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Artem Evdokimov wrote: Or... (gasp) store a regular USB drive in a freezer, yes? If the relationship between data decay rate and temperature indeed follows the same good old Arrhenius formula then any old USB drive is virtually endless at -80C and safe for human life span at -20 (i.e. kitchen freezer, sans defrost cycles (so pack your USB in some ice packs so defrost doesn't kill it). If this works, feel free to send me money, SanDisk... Artem On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Richard Gillilan <r...@cornell.edu<mailto:r...@cornell.edu>> wrote: SanDisk advertises a "Memory Vault" disk for archival storage of photos that they claim will last 100 years. (note: they do have a scheme for estimating lifetime of the memory, Arrhenius Equation ... interesting. Check it out: www.sandisk.com/products/usb/memory-vault/<http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/memory-vault/> and click the Chronolock tab.). Has anyone here looked into this or seen similar products? Richard Gillilan MacCHESS
