Where can i find a good internet timecapsule?

[Gh0st93]

The problem is not only with something that will store it but something that will be able to read it and use it or run it. A flash drive could last 50 years but there could be nothing that uses USB in 50 years so you would either have to try to transfer it to the new standards or just forget it.

[mgz]

well i am disregarding your post and going for the joke.


Myspace...

[kitamesume]

The problem is not only with something that will store it but something that will be able to read it and use it or run it. A flash drive could last 50 years but there could be nothing that uses USB in 50 years so you would either have to try to transfer it to the new standards or just forget it.

no, NAND flash expires and returns back to 0 on all of it's cells after a long while.

[NaRu]

you are better off burning your information on DVD then store it a vacuum container.

[Gh0st93]

The problem is not only with something that will store it but something that will be able to read it and use it or run it. A flash drive could last 50 years but there could be nothing that uses USB in 50 years so you would either have to try to transfer it to the new standards or just forget it.

no, NAND flash expires and returns back to 0 on all of it's cells after a long while.

No, my point wasn't about how flash drives could last for x amount of time. It's that the ports for them on computers could and most likely should be phased out by the desired amount of time.

[Big Teeth]

Print the data as a bunch of numbers. In 500 years, numbers still excist.
Ask Nicolas Cage to do the number cracking: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/
Oops, he won't be around in 500 years

[Pentium100]

its similar to how 500GB were a lot for most people 10years ago, now a days 1TB isn't remotely enough without major pruning.

Yes, but 10 years ago 500GB were much more expensive than 1TB is now.

I have a 21 year old hard drive that stores ~1GB. The drive is 5.25" Full Height (and obviously only used in servers or very high end PCs). When it was new, it probably cost a few thousand dollars. Now you can store 1GB on flash memory that costs a few bucks (and you probably won't find a new flash stick that small). A 3.5" drive (used in a PC) of a similar age is only 120MB.

[kitamesume]

wait what? i remember 500GB costing $100 10years ago, similar to today's 1TB @ $80~$100

but yes today's drives are cheaper per GB, but that isn't the point, it was a few GB of storage space is plenty before but now's storage requirement is very large.

[Bob2004]

500GB did NOT cost $100 ten years ago. They were much less common then, and were a lot more expensive. They were very new, after all. Most computers didn't have hard drives anywhere near that size - I got a new computer around then which had a 160GB drive, and that was pretty standard.

...Actually, thinking back, it was probably even later than that that I bought that PC. I'd only had it for ~4-5 years tops when I bought my current desktop in 2009. And 500GB drives were still really expensive when I bought a 300GB drive for it a year or two later, so it's probably closer to 5 years ago at the earliest that 500GB drives cost $100. You also need to take inflation etc into account, of course.

[kitamesume]

now that you mentioned it i remember my P4+FX5600 package coming with a 500GB seagate and only costed $600, it was around 2005 hmmmm 8years ago.

[Xycolian2332]

The problem is not only with something that will store it but something that will be able to read it and use it or run it. A flash drive could last 50 years but there could be nothing that uses USB in 50 years so you would either have to try to transfer it to the new standards or just forget it.

I don't really care about any problems with it. Just thought I'd share for shits and giggles.