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

[frank@cozmic.com]

That's why I'm writing on papyrus rolls and storing them in caves.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 4:42 PM Dave Daniel <kc0wjn 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.
>
> 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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> >> *   Dave Serls                                 Littleton, CO, USA      *
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