FY 2025 Offline Archive Media Trade Study

This document is a trade study comparing offline digital archive storage technologies. The document compares and assesses several technologies, and recommends which technologies could be deployed as the next-generation standard for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
 

Archives must regularly migrate to the next generation of digital archive technology, and the technology selected must maintain data integrity until the next migration. This document is the Fiscal Year 2025 revision of a study completed in Fiscal Year 2001 and revised in Fiscal Years 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2023.

The U.S. Geological Survey uses trade studies and reviews for internal purposes and does not endorse vendors or products. The results of the study were determined by criteria weights selected by the U.S. Geological Survey to meet its unique requirements. Other organizations could produce different results by altering the criteria weights to meet their own requirements.

This delivery is official submission to the USGS under the TSSC contract 140G0121D0001