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Since NAND flash memory is a charge in a cell it requires to be refreshed once in a while, so I would not be archiving anything on solid state
Careful with unknown digital storage thingys.
We watched the Live moon landing etc. My Uncle worked at Motorola Gvt engineering in Scottsdale so we had a little help understanding the camera issues.
Fran in her spaceship 🚀 swamped with supply boxes 📦 🙂
By that logic, cave painting is the only truly proven archival medium. Flash memory is pretty well proven and understood at this point. I think institutional-scale archival concerns are a bit different from individuals. I'd much rather have something robust against environmental contaminants, temperature extremes, physical vibrations and shocks, and magnetic fields from my speaker, phone, power supplies, experiments, etc. But that's because I don't have a sterile climate controlled archive room. I also don't care if my data can be read 100 years after I'm dead when you can't find a SATA adapter any more, which isn't as much of a problem for simpler physical media like tapes (or cave paintings).
"To the Moon". Narrated by Sorell Booke. Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard!
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So much documented history sent in viewer mail! Time Life vinyl too?? So much we should never take for granted, and yet with the internet we kind of have… Hard copies on paper, books can sure last a long time in proper storage. Lest we resort to binary on carved stone.
Thumb drives haven't failed on me yet, unlike external hard drives. But SSDs will have control board faults like HDDs that even though they're protected from radiation of all kinds, they're still susceptible to static electricity and fabrication cost cutting. The only way to keep anything forever is to continually make diversified copies. But rationally, it eventually gets curated.
Fran that was fantastic I really enjoyed it. I have watched all your videos. I am also an Electronic engineer. I am 72 years old. My electronics and software is used all over the world in the narrow textile industry not that I ever made money out of it my innovation and design but the company I worked for did. I have grown up from valve through transistors intergated components card then microprocessors like the signetics 2650 then development like C, basic etc then windows software development electronics I am also transgender MTF for the last 17 years. You are an inspiration thankyou Ashleigh 🤗💖
I remember my family dragging a 6 year old me up to the old B&W television set to watch the moon landing … I did not appreciate how profound that was at the time
That… Narrator… Sounds familiar. James T Kirk?
Archival (cold backups) use of SSDs aren't very good idea. But AFAIK if they are powered on at least every few months it would be fine.The memory cells are (roughly?) tiny super caps? Fran would understand the theory papers better than I
Nice haul today!
Really interesting that they don't flinch away from talking about the fundamental importance of the Germans and the Russians, just 25 years after World War 2 and transitioning into the Cold War.