Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoYeah no, thats not an “archive” you are talking about thats just a bunch of storage. Archives are for things like historical, government, artistic data. That stuff sits in airtight cases on tape storage in a bunker.
Obviously any drive that is constantly in use to deliver data to customers is gonna die, thats never going to change. But these were actually intended to be used for archiving but failed at doing exactly that.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Archive is whatever companies want it to be. I’ve been told anything that’s not microfilm isn’t an archive, so there you go.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Words have meaning, doesnt matter what some company says.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sure, in the world of social media you can enforce whatever arbitrary terms you wish.
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You’re currently having a conversation on an article about cold storage. The comment you replied to was about this article, and hence also about cold storage. It makes absolutely no sense to come into this conversation saying that they’re wrong about how cold storage works because your experience with hot storage doesn’t line up.