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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Yes, in a few years time what ever you are storing this on will be outdated and you will have to keep moving stuff around or may well lose it completely, try getting info off a floppy these days, in the end paper is still the best way to keep things you absoloutly need.
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Nah. PDF, as an example, is an ISO standard. With governments settling on PDF as a standard, there's almost zero chance you'd be unable to handle one in the next 50-100 years.
In terms of storage media, there's no need to worry about that either. Keep it all on live media (that is to say, media that is a current standard, such as a hard drive today), backed up in multiple spots (duplicate physical media copies, and another stored in the cloud somewhere), and just keep dragging it along with you as you go - when you upgrade from hard drives to holobyte storage, or whatever is hot in 20 years, just copy the data to the holobyte, and away you go.
Unless you're a professional photographer or film person, we're basically at the point where you are unable, as an individual, to create more data than we can comfortably manage and maintain indefinitely these days.