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

[Dave Daniel]

Well, there's always "the cloud" ..... LMAO.

DaveD
KC0WJN

Thanks for all the fish.
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> On Sep 13, 2024, at 18:37, Robert Raicer <rjr80544 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.
> 
> 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.
>> 
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