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army1987 comments on If you could take it with you, what would you take? - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: DataPacRat 18 November 2012 12:12AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2012 11:35:00AM 1 point [-]

Not to mention that flash memory has much better storage density. A compromise would be archiving just about everything on flash memory and having an extra copy of just the most important stuff on a couple M-discs.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 November 2012 01:14:36PM 2 points [-]

Considering the mechanism of flash memory, I'm not sanguine about it surviving for centuries.

Comment author: DataPacRat 19 November 2012 08:08:33PM 1 point [-]

After losing some digital photos stored on some flash memory, I'm not sanguine about it surviving for months...

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 19 November 2012 08:43:43PM 0 points [-]

Was that recent? They're a lot better than they used to be.

Comment author: DataPacRat 19 November 2012 08:53:33PM 1 point [-]

It was about a year ago.