Ancestors

Toot

Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:26

This week's Thursday Threads looks at digital storage from the past and the future. There are articles about the mechanics of massive data storage systems in tech giants like Google and Amazon, the still existing use of floppy disks in certain industries, and the herculean efforts of digital archivists to access stored data from outdated mediums.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage/

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Descendants

Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:26

Hard drives seem indestructible, especially compared to previous forms of storage. So we went all in on digitizing and converting and storing on hard drives. But what if the hard drives start failing?

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#iron-mountain

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:27

You've been tasked with storing data. You don't know what the data is or how important it is, but you have to give it back when asked. When your goal is outliving the heat death of the universe.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#s3

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:27

It is the rare company that reaches the size of Google, Amazon, or Facebook. These companies have a lot of data, and they want to make sure it is findable and usable anywhere in the company. What distributed storage looks like.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#distributed-storage

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:28

When was the last time you used a floppy disk? There are some industries that still use them every day.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#still-using-floppies

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:29

Archives everywhere have stacks of old floppy disks. Read about the techniques that archivists use to recover what is on them.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#reading-old-floppy

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:29

Your job is to store data that outlasts your career. What medium do you use? How do you distribute it? How to think about century-scale storage.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#century-scale-storage

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:29

This Week I Learned: In Ethiopia, time follows the sun like nowhere else.

https://dltj.org/article/issue-104-long-term-digital-storage#twil

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Written by Peter Murray on 2025-01-23 at 13:32

Obligatory Cat Photo at the end of this Thursday Threads newsletter issue: Alan and Mittens squabble at the cat tree

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