Over a decade ago I was working for AWS on Glacier, we jokingly pitched an April fools day article about how Glacier stores customer data on vinyl records, and that 9 out of 10 customers preferred the feel of their data when restored.

AWS doesn't (or didn't) do April Fools day bits, so it didn't go anywhere, but the idea did amuse us in the team for a bit.

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hedgehog 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Engraving data on a titanium record would be a way to store it for many years even with exceptionally poor environmental conditions (fire, flood, locusts, plagues, what have you).

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bayindirh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

M-DISC [0] will probably cover most of the scenarios. It's still expensive, though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

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kccqzy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. And it doesn’t have to be titanium per se. Cerabyte is trying to use ceramic. Even rocks might be good enough.

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thatguy0900 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Nasa preferred gold (more specifically copper plated with nickel and then plated with gold) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

	▲	mikepurvis 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair, that's not simply an archival disc, but also something explicitly intended to be readable by intelligent life elsewhere in space. The encoding of data was optimized for simplicity above all else.

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jacquesm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not such a huge step from an optical jukebox to a vinyl one :)

I can totally see it working.

	▲	hinkley an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Okay turning a jukebox into a drive carousel would be a pretty cool mod.