This article demonstrates the fragility of digital storage through a non-media-centric ethnography of data management practices in the so-called Global South. It shows how in the Lau Lagoon, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, the capacity to reliably store digital media is curtailed by limited access to means of capital production and civic infrastructures, as well as a comparatively isolated tropical ecology that bedevils the permanence of all things. The object biography of mobile phones, including MicroSD cards, typically short, fits into a broader historical pattern of everyday engagements with materializations of transience in the Lau Lagoon. Three types of visual media are exemplary in this regard: sand, ancestral material cultures and digital visual media (photographs and videos). Ultimately, Lau experiences of transience in their visual media are located in their visual technological history and the choices they make about which materials to maintain or dispose of.

本文通过所谓的Global South的数据管理实践的非以媒体为中心的民族志论证明了数字存储的脆弱性。它显示了在所罗门群岛马来塔省劳泻湖，可靠地存储数字媒体的能力是如何通过有限的资本生产手段和公民基础设施以及相对孤立的热带生态来削弱万物的持久性而减少的。手机的对象简介（包括通常很短的MicroSD卡）适合于Lau Lagoon中短暂实现的日常接触的更广泛的历史模式。在这方面，三种类型的视觉媒体是示例性的：沙子，祖先的物质文化和数字视觉媒体（照片和视频）。最终，