# What's the best way to store digital data for a life time?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 22, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-store-digital-data-for-a-life-time/544157 "2010-06-22T20:20:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-store-digital-data-for-a-life-time/544157/21 "2010-06-23T14:47:32Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> The danger is either old platters which have lost some bits…

Which can be mitigated by storage format, for instance, certain levels of RAID.

Personally, I’m looking forward to the time when the [B-tree file system](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs) (btrfs) is stable.

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