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Originally Posted by HarryT
...digital data doesn't degrade with time, whereas your 20-year-old paperback is likely to be falling to pieces after a few reads.
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That's what they said about the magnetic tape that is decaying after five and ten years so it is unreadable. Digital data is not permanent. While it is easily moveable to another source, you still have to do that prior to the source failure.