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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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My father told me he wanted to make USB flash drives of all the scanned and digitized family photos and other assorted letters and mementos. He planned to distribute them to all family members hoping that at least one set would survive. When I explained that they ought to be recipes to new media every N number of years or risk deteriorating or becoming unreadable (like a floppy disk when you have no floppy drive), he was genuinely shocked. He lost interest in the project that he’d thought was so bullet proof.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a former audio engineer in the days where we still used it- tape can rot.

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

im not an audio engineer, but people didnt know this????

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It seemed like the person I was talking to didn't. The implication was that tape was viable as long-term storage. It isn't. I've seen tapes rot after a year. DATs were especially prone to that, but even things like 2" multitrack audio tape can go bad that quickly.