Comment by jjav

> Modern flash drives are at least an order of magnitude more reliable than floppy disks were.

I don't know if that is true. I have 5.25" floppies from ca.1990 that were readable as of just a couple years ago, so about 30 years.

You're saying flash drives are readable for at least 300 years? I don't know but I doubt that.

(The floppies might still be readable today, I just haven't tried. The content is now archived in a zfs pool.)