Maybe the memory chips will retain their bits for 100 years, but what
about the driver hardware or internal power supply? Anyone had an
electrolytic capacitor last for 100 years? Just sayin...
I like the image of the USB sticks in the -80 freezer, though. :)
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On 12/12/2012 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
