⏱️ Choosing the right long term storage media is part of protecting your data from degradation or other forms of loss. But there's more to it than just media.

There are varying opinions, but traditional magnetic hard drives seem the most likely to last the longest for archiving data. The best approach is to refresh the data by periodically copying to more current media. Data formats also come into play. Saving in open and/or ubiquitous file formats like pdf will help ensure the data can be read years from now.

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