Hence why they said with constant copying to new hardware.
Though historically you could say the same with old written text, they could also be copied but humans are lazy and not very good at future proofing. One day the Vatican library will go up in smoke and we’ll have once again lost some of our history.
In theory yes, in practice no. The concept of bit rot is known to anyone with a lot of data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
Hence why they said with constant copying to new hardware.
Though historically you could say the same with old written text, they could also be copied but humans are lazy and not very good at future proofing. One day the Vatican library will go up in smoke and we’ll have once again lost some of our history.
Plenty of which no one is allowed access to anyway, IIRC.
That’s why you would need corruption detection with multiple copies in raid.
So pretty much ZFS