On Feb 3, 2017 2:05 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: On 2017-02-03 12:56 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
Apparently some of them they put the USB interface right on the drive controller board, so it doesn't even have a SATA connector.
Like the “WD PiDrive Foundation Edition” for the Raspberry Pi: <http://wdlabs.wd.com/products/wd-pidrive-foundation-edition/>
Not sure I want to use clay tablets.
Oh I dunno: a CNC controlled punch could impress QR-Code-like Reed–Solomon encoded data on wet feldspar clay tiles. Fire that with a nice glaze and you'll get a few kilobytes per tile that will last for pretty much everyone's definition of "forever". Proper storage should consider plate tectonics as a threat model. Reformatting the media, however, is left as an exercise for the reader. With the proper isotope markers in the mix = Bitcoins. Grind em up and start a new fork after the digital value is siphoned off. Russell Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk