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BrikoXMtoTechnology@lemmy.zipEnglish·1 month ago

Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed

(www.tomshardware.com)

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Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed

(www.tomshardware.com)

BrikoXMtoTechnology@lemmy.zipEnglish·1 month ago

Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.

Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.

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Which is higher on an active disk pool with auto-healing.
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  Sure if we’re powering every drive. For long term shelf stable backups, it’s still tape.