Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

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On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 08:07 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 05:06:38AM -0800, Community support for Fedora users wrote:
I have noticed that my customers who go out and buy external
USB mechanical drive drives for backup never have any
"last".  They always go bad...

On a related topic, what can be recommended for archival storage -- decades or maybe even centuries? Magnetic disks and tape lose data, so do CDROMS, and flash memory, cloud backup requires reliable payment and providers can go out of business, technologies change, etc. Is anything better than printouts on archival quality paper?
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