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

• Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah I work for a place that uses discs for archival in addition to tapes and the discs do have specific requirements for storage, like opaque boxes in a temp and humidity controlled room. The discs are also some fancy Japanese brand I’ve never heard of. Probably best not to pickup a pack of CD-R at the walmart and use those.

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  • huf@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i’ve had factory printed DVDs die while stored at room temperature in the dark (case). they just developed holes.

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