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It do be like that in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I recently tried to read a small number of 30+ year-old floppy disks containing code I wrote for the Atari ST and they're all unreadable. The disk surface is noticably degraded.

A mix of buying cheap disks, using non-standard formats to prioritise space over reliability, and waiting too long to duplicate the data.

Lesson learned.

Has anyone ever had drives that lasted for decades? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've got three drives in my NAS that are about 12yo

My 8 year old HDD died in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've had one drive die on me and that was in a PC that was inside my house when it experienced a severe fire.

It lasted long enough for me to pull the data to another disk but on the next reboot it died.

These days I have a parity protected nas, a backup nas and and an off-site storage solution with my more essential data. Also cloud for photos.