Comment on Dying of prosperity, 14TB HDD left unused
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days agoNo.
Cold storage is really “no storage”. A cold drive can’t tell you when an area of disk fails, or when the controller itself fails.
May as well just throw away the data, because you have no idea how much will be there when you try to power it on.
I have 8TB of data, and I get bit flips - if the drive were cold, I’d never know.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 days ago
I didn’t mean to suggest it would be the only point of backup. If you plug it in and it works then it saves a lot of time downloading from some off-site backup.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
But you don’t know of it’ll even power up, or if the data is valid.