Translations:Omgaan met digitale dragers in je archief/1/en

What if your archive contains carriers such as CD-ROMs, floppy disks, DVDs and external hard drives? If you simply store these carriers without any additional preparation, there’s a good chance that the files saved on them will eventually become unreadable. The carriers can deteriorate or wear out over time, e.g. as a result of bit rot. There’s also a good chance that the hardware (and associated software) required to read the carrier will ultimately become obsolete. The best thing you can do in this situation, therefore, is to copy the files to a reliable storage system with as few modifications as possible. But how do you go about this?