[Meatloaf] C Components Storage Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed

[Robert Raicer]

ALL storage devices fail eventually, regardless of usage.  And that
"eventually" is getting quicker rather than longer.  Among other reasons,
this is why organizations like NCAR have dedicated systems which do nothing
but continuously replicate data onto all kinds of storage systems,
generally geographically dispersed.  And the replication processes often
entail conversion to different formats/representations.

Welcome to our fragile digital world!

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 3:49 PM Dave Serls <dave at dashs.denver.co.us> wrote:

> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
>
> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
> For great justice.
>
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:16:27 -0600
> pt <mnemotronic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
> >
> > All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
> > You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
> > For great justice.
> >
> >
> https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/twenty-percent-of-hard-drives-used-for-long-term-music-storage-in-the-90s-have-failed
> >
> >
> >
> > Please wash your hands after handling this mail. Thanks!
>
>   It's a two-edged sword:  the playback technology for any media will
>   obsolesce at some fraction of the storage longevity.  It's all
>   "Linear A" in the end.
>
> --
> ************************************************************************
> *   Dave Serls                                 Littleton, CO, USA      *
> *   dashs.denver.co.us                         http://www.dashs.com    *
> ************************************************************************
> --
> Meatloaf mailing list
> Meatloaf at dashs.denver.co.us
> http://dashs.denver.co.us:7083/pipermail/meatloaf
>