Anyone who reads Giz probably knows that even though your data is “saved,” it’s still susceptible to the decay of whatever medium is storing it. According to one expert, the problem is nearly unsolvable. In an interview by David Pogue, Dag Spicer , curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, noted that there’s no great solution to saving your data other than resaving it again and again. His best advice: …every five or ten years, you should move it onto a different format, like from VHS tape to DVD. And that’s fine, but then DVD is already obsolete, there’s Blu-ray, and so what’s going to happen in another 10 years?

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There’s No Great Solution to Data Rot [Saving]