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...
And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
Many old SDcards.
I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation. :-)
You may find that the oxide coat falls off when you try to read them.
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.
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.
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...
And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
Many old SDcards.
I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation. >:-)
On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:47:58 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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...
And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
Many old SDcards.
I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation. >>:-)
Copy them to Dropbox before it's too late.
On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:16:11 -0700) it happened john larkin ><JL@gct.com> wrote in <e9p8ejd9dlbfsjsvmjp19vtrfmmf2brce5@4ax.com>:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:47:58 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>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...
And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
Many old SDcards.
I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation. >>>:-)
Copy them to Dropbox before it's too late.
Not sure dripbox will still work without power after WW3 nuking!
I think online storage is a bad idea, also for security reasons.
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:56:19 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:16:11 -0700) it happened john larkin >><JL@gct.com> wrote in <e9p8ejd9dlbfsjsvmjp19vtrfmmf2brce5@4ax.com>:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:47:58 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>>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...
And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
Many old SDcards.
I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation.
:-)
Copy them to Dropbox before it's too late.
Not sure dripbox will still work without power after WW3 nuking!
I think online storage is a bad idea, also for security reasons.
What's on all those CDs and DVDs?
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