With magnetic storage media—hard drives and tape—the magnetically stored data degrades, causing bit rot, which undermines the accuracy of the data. By contrast, the pits and lands on optical ...

Google Cloud has Nearline and Coldline storage, priced as low as US¢1/GB per month for nearline, and ¢0.4/GB per month for coldline deep archive.

Enterprise storage pros need to balance data- preservation, accessibility, and resource-optimization requirements as they weigh the various archive systems available in the market.

In the IP/IT world, all connections should be electronic or networked, because physically removing and replacing storage media from one subsystem to another disrupts the design purpose and efficiency ...

Let your friends and family know that you have boxes that you need to get rid of. If anyone you know is also in the process of moving, they may wish to take them off your hands.