WE WEREN'T LYING WHEN WE SAID IT WAS PAPER
GET AN ANCIENT PAPER TAPE PUNCH/READER AND STFUGTFO YOU ASS
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Anonymous2007-04-02 4:15 ID:AdDMDEg6
PROTIP: There's a reason why some people still use tape for backup. And no, I'm not being a faggot.
Rather you should repose your question more precisely. What level of reliability do you want to achieve and for what purpose? Do you just want to backup your mp3/image collection? Or do you need to backup ultra secret experimental company/government data?
>>4
Give this man an internet. ITT, OP is a fag that doesn't believe low tech solutions can be the best.
Any good archivist knows, the most reliable type of storage is good quality paper. As long as you don't get it wet or burn it, it will last hundreds of years.
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Anonymous2007-04-03 21:53 ID:lH8FQ2Sz
>>12
It's also heavy and expensive. Unless you're planning for some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario, paper is pretty useless.
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Anonymous2007-04-03 22:30 ID:pmC5oyeL
gold plated punch-card 'bricks', mirrored in at least two more storage facilities in different countries. more water resistant and less flammable than paper, and more or less immune to everything except a highly concentrated attack.
You're a faggot for thinking the data the OP wants to store is limited to printable data.
As far as I know there aren't any conventional means of playing music, videos or pc games with paper.
>>16
And this is more convenient than... a usb stick? You are Batman.
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Anonymous2007-04-04 8:28 ID:eC4TZXlv
>>17
Cheaper (well, perhaps not), harder to misplace.
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Anonymous2007-04-04 9:54 ID:WMtah9vu
>>18
Ok so a giant pile of paper is far better than a usbstick on your keychain
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Anonymous2007-04-04 10:01 ID:QO4P9vTm
>>18
you do know that a whole encyclopedia can be stored on 3 cds (approx. 2.1 gigs)? that's two whole shelf rows of paper that we're dealing with. why would anyone want to store 5 gigs (any size will do) worth of images encoded in base64 on paper and make it take up a whole room rather than:
1) make multiple tape/dvd/hard drive copies for redundancy and store them in different locations to minimize the loss of data
2) keep transferring the data to newer computers when a new one is purchased
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Anonymous2007-04-04 10:14 ID:NfthuXUn
the OP is looking for reliable storage, not convenient storage. usb sticks and cds are convenient, but paper and gold plated bricks are reliable. gold and paper artifacts have been discovered from thousands of years ago, still intact. no such claim can be made about usb sticks or cds.
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Anonymous2007-04-04 11:26 ID:1j6Jc8hO
1) make multiple tape/dvd/hard drive copies for redundancy and store them in different locations to minimize the loss of data
The more disks, the more likely it is that they all fail simultaneously. 2) keep transferring the data to newer computers when a new one is purchased
That will be neglected.
As for me -- I store all my anime on paper. I use a really small font with a really high resolution printer though as well as double-sided printing, so I can store an episode in the equivalent space of a single book. This is really practical and environmentally friendly.
>>24
>>** VERY RELIABLE **
Um actually not. The ORC + uuencode is probably a better idea.
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Anonymous2007-04-04 20:15 ID:QO4P9vTm
This is really practical and environmentally friendly.
fuck. one episode?!! taking up a whole book?!! nobody stores just one episode, you have to do the entire series. people also tend to have more than one series of anime. now that's environmentally friendly!!
usb sticks and cds are convenient, but paper and gold plated bricks are reliable.
assuming no manufacturing defects, the usb stick should last longest of all the traditional computer storage formats because it is a solid state device.
if anyone can cite an instance of someone that has used gold or paper as a computer data archive in modern times (2000 or later), then I will concede that paper/gold is a suitable as a computer data archive. the reference must be from some reputable source and not just some guy's blog.
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Anonymous2007-04-04 23:19 ID:bA1g1iL+
>>26
>if anyone can cite an instance of someone that has used gold or paper as a computer data archive in modern times (2000 or later)
Of course no one has actually ever done it. It's completely impractical, but the OP never said anything about being practical. He simply asked for the most reliable storage medium, so we informed him that it was paper/gold bricks.
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Anonymous2007-04-05 0:56 ID:5hP6MY87
So, OP, what do you need stored (or at least how much of it) and how is "reliability" (clearly an ambiguous term) an issue?
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Anonymous2007-04-05 4:07 ID:HkFI6MQu
OP here, game over.
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Anonymous2007-04-05 4:50 ID:4AjIgmpQ
>>27
Gold is prone to Jewing -- i.e. Jews stealing your gold. Paper is thusly more reliable.
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Anonymous2007-04-05 8:08 ID:qM175o7O
This monstrosity would be better stored as binary punchcards, me thinks
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