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<Piraty>are floppy disks considered durable enough to store its data for $much_longer than , say , CD/DVD ? <Piraty>apart from the hardware availability/repairability problem <stikonas[m]>Well, maybe in perfect storage conditions they survive long enough... <stikonas[m]>Isn't hard drive much better protected as it is enclosed <oriansj>avih: I've got it on my queue and I am thinking of defining hex0 in terms of Extended Backus–Naur form to minimize future confusion. <oriansj>Piraty: Pressed DVD/CDs last much longer than floppy disks but burned DVD/CDs last shorter. Sadly the life of a media is more often defined by the life of available readers than by the media itself <Piraty>and software capable of interacting with the reader and software capable of making sense of the data <Piraty>think of all the public archives that settled for proprietary formats that are long gone and cost tons on money to have someone work on it / convert to new proprietary formats <oriansj>which tells us very directly, anything without humans caring enough to keep something working; will die with little to no nope of recovery. <oriansj>which ensures greater odds the minimal number of people who care about a format and are capable to ensuring its survival exist. <nektro>Piraty, tape is still the long term storage media of choice for many <nektro>and +100 on using good formats and saving the things you care about because your collection will without question need maintenance