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dummydummy1234last Monday at 2:52 AM0 repliesview on HN

Long term storage, along the lines of tape replacement/supplement?

There are plenty of things that need to be archived in a basement and never read unless the more readily available forms get corrupted.

Having the ability to say as long as the item exists the data exists is valuable, especially with not having to worry about degradation (which happens with tapes/flash/hard drives)

The ability to say that the data is good.