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In Reply to: At least CDs/SACDs provide music pretty much forever posted by middleground on March 1, 2015 at 10:45:41:
Yep -
Computer files have to be stored on something - and in order to avoid files being corrupted or lost, you are on a bit of a treadmill - having to swap out hard drives every few years. The archiving of digital data is a real problem. We won't leave to future generations much in the way of our electronic files, pictures and other ephemera people use to assess a particular era. There will be a radical drop in these things c 2003-2005 and there will be a gap until someone figures out a convenient, archival way of storing digital data.
Ironically, the LP is probably the best medium for archiving music right now.
Tape is a 10-60 year proposition (depending upon the binding agent for the magnetic particles and how it is stored and the number of times it's dubbed)
CD is a 15-30 year proposition depending upon the metal used, how it is stored, and the glue used and how well it is stuck together (bit rot). CD-R's don't count as they are dye based, so direct sunlight will usually wreck them in a few years, but time will keep it 5-10 years.
Files on a disk - 2-5 years
LP's - 70-120 year proposition.
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