Re: OT: backup panic?

On 13/09/2024 04:47, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying:
  https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/?comments=1&comments-page=1
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
 Backup panic?
I have a thousand or more CD's and DVDs in a light proof alu box
I have some 24 year old floppies and a USB floppy reader...

You may find that the oxide coat falls off when you try to read them.

And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
A 15 year old USB stick used every day...

That might be on its last legs. I knew someone who used them as disposable items literally wearing them out the way they were used.

Many old SDcards.
I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation.
:-)

That is quite likely . Rare comedy shows and performances records off air by talented amateurs do come to light from time to time and are added to the BBC archives. Likewise for tape copies sent abroad that ended up lost in some dark cupboard decades ago.
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Martin Brown