Like I’d imagine there’s gonna be a lot of rain over time if I want this time capsule to last like idk 10 years? 30 years?

Is there like a box so tough its indestructible?

Can animals dig it up if I bury it?

How deep do it bury it?

Is the earth’s magnetism gonna affect the hard drive? (Or is there a better medium?)

Like I want this to be like very low budget, I don’t have millions to build an actual timecapsule like some organizations have done. Is there some cheap box that’s waterproof to protect a hard drive from damage for like 30 years buried in the ground?

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        It’s specifically what they’re for. They’re designed for archival purposes.

        You can spiral off into techno-paranoia if you like, but that’s just going to lead you to the conclusion that there are no solutions and nothing can be done. OP’s looking for actual solutions so that’s not helpful here.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          I’m sorry, did I not provide a workable solution using magnetic media and periodic writes of new data? There’s nothing paranoid about that. It’s smart archiving.

          You can spiral off into portraying my common-sense solution as hyperbolic bullshit, but that’s just going to lead me to the conclusion that you didn’t read or comprehend my recommendation. I provided an actual solution and what you said isn’t helpful.

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          That’s true, but for obvious reasons that hasn’t been fully tested yet. Still, for just 10-30 years, it should probably work. Certainly better than a hard drive.

          • FaceDeer@fedia.io
            3·
            3 days ago

            There are ways to artificially “age” media by accelerating the sorts of degradation pathways they’d be experiencing naturally during storage in normal conditions.

      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        3 days ago

        M-Disks are rated for one thousand years. Unlike other writable optical meida it doesn’t use an organic substrate. It’s carbon glass, very stable.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          What’s awesome is that no one alive today can disprove their marketing. I’ll stick with the tech that we’ve been using for decades. You know, the one about which we have lots of data how it performs and degrades. Because we’ve manufactured hundreds of millions, or perhaps billions, of them. How many people do you know using M-DISCs and how many of them have had them for decades? I can answer the second part: zero, as they came to market in 2009.