You could protect the data on some physical medium, like a CD or magnetic tape.
Based upon our estimates (Coughlin Associates) more than 400 Exabytes of data now reside on digital magnetic tape.
At the moment the mass-storage medium of choice is magnetic tape, which has the advantage of being cheap.
The company has controlled its costs by using three tiers of storage with hard disk drives and magnetic tape.
The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.
Modern digital magnetic tape turns 60 this year but despite its age, the technology looks like it is far from retiring.
It is generally believed that these cold storage data centers will use HDDs for primary storage rather than magnetic tape.
These analog magnetic tape machines led to the development of audio and video recording technologies after WWII by companies such as Ampex.
Computers have now replaced magnetic tape, meaning the devices can record more data and are far more likely to survive an impact.
The data storage industry has always been two-dimensional, racing to jam more bits onto the surfaces of magnetic tape, CDs or DVDs.
Magnetic tape continues to be relevant for long-term data retention and archiving.
This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old.
Magnetic tape in professional recording has taken a nose dive while flash memory is the rising video storage format according the survey results.
In 2012 the LTO consortium introduced LTO 6, the 6th generation of LTO magnetic tape storage with raw storage capacities up to 2.5 TB.
Also modern enterprise storage technology, whether it is flash memory, HDDs or magnetic tape include new power saving features to minimize the costs of storage.
Magnetic tape is where the least frequently accessed information is stored.
But now the simple invention of a cathode ray tube, transforming light into electrons, registering their impact on the magnetic tape, had torn the curtain away.
With total stored information growth exceeding 50% annual increases, high capacity, low cost storage technologies such as digital magnetic tape will continue to play an important role.
Aside from magnetic tape (which generally has a slower time to access information) there is no more cost effective storage device to keep all this content on than HDDs.
It is clear that the total growth in storage demand will drive increased need for an ecosystem of storage technologies including flash memory and HDDs (and even magnetic tape).
The LTO tape consortium (led by HP, IBM and Quantum) has a public tape product roadmap that will take magnetic tape technology out to about 13 TB of native (uncompressed) storage capacity.
As can be seen, traditional film use is 15% or less with digital technologies such as optical discs, hard disk drives, magnetic tape and flash memory are the bulk of modern recording media.
Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.
Steven Sasson invented the digital camera itself, starting at Kodak in the 1970s with an eight-and-a-half-pound box connected to a magnetic tape drive and a TV set, which produced a .01 megapixel image.
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Although magnetic tape sitting in slots in a tape library uses very little energy data latency is high, spinning magnetic disk drives have lower latency but they can use up a fair amount of energy.
The LTFS LTO file system allows modern digital tape storage to be used like NAS file systems and simplifies the use of magnetic tape libraries and allows faster access to the content stored on them.
In addition to a higher storage capacity than past LTO generations, LTO 5 also offers new architecture features such as the LTFS file system that turn magnetic tape into a directly addressable data source, like a hard disk drive.
The stored data "is sequential, like a magnetic tape, where you have to spool through stuff to get at the data, " said bioengineer Sriram Kosuri at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, who was the project's lead researcher.
Regarding the longevity of storage media many of the products that we use today, hard disk drives, flash memory, optical discs and magnetic tape will react with the ambient environment and gradually lose the data stored on them or disintegrate over time.
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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