North Central US | Thud - 11/23/2024 17:55
but will it be accessible. My brother passed away in 2022, found some old zip discs that were labelled as yield data and fert recs. None of my current computers/laptops have a zip drive and when I googled external zip drives there was nothing available, at least at a reasonable price. These were just old discs but who know what the storage medium of choice will be in 25 or 50 yrs... There's a real chance that most data being stored today may not even be accessible in 50 yrs, simply because the 'old tech' was replaced by new cutting edge stuff that simply isnt backwards compatible.
That is the point of the internet archive wayback machine, put any URL in it and out pops a saved copy of it, from any time, going back to the 90s, as long as someone remembered to save it.
Zip drives were kinda a in between, not real popular in the big picture, not really dependable when new, thing. Between floppy disks, CDs, and flash storage.
You can get new USB floppy and CD drives, along with readers for flash storage(CF, SD, etc). Zip you are new old stock only, as they never seen the widespread use of any of the ones I mentioned.
You many have to buy an internal drive and drag out your old PC and just run it with the side panel off and the cable running to it through the side to get that data off of it.
SATA and SAS have been here for about 30 years or so and will be for probably the next 30 as they are filling the need for large, long term storage that doesn't need to be fast, like HDDs, that you will soon be able to buy that exceed 30 TB. For your faster storage media, USB is still around 30 years later, and faster yet you have U.2, which is fading and wasn't terribly popular, M.2 is currently the standard, but there are faster competing standards that are working their way down from the enterprise markets currently, but nothing appears to be replacing USB and SATA/SAS soon or even in the far future. |
How long do you think these post will be around?
