In reality it is more complex but the possibility is there
Yes and no. It’s not incorrect, but the issue is said hardware degrading and constantly needing to move the data to a new medium. Always has been, pretty much.
Reality is complex
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In theory yes, in practice no. The concept of bit rot is known to anyone with a lot of data.
Hence why they said with constant copying to new hardware.
Though historically you could say the same with old written text, they could also be copied but humans are lazy and not very good at future proofing. One day the Vatican library will go up in smoke and we’ll have once again lost some of our history.
That’s why you would need corruption detection with multiple copies in raid.
So pretty much ZFS
Doesn’t tape last a super, super long time? I thought that was of the reason for the resurgence of tape for archive storage.
It depends on the conditions. At the end of they DAT it will fail at some point.
Well, you can always get archival M-DISC. https://www.mdisc.com/ Treated special materials to resist moisture and UV degradation. Should last 1000 years if not tampered with. Idk what the read/write speeds are, but they offer a 100GB bluray disc option.