I remember buying a cheap 4 pack of PS1 memory cards, I think the brand was pelican? I was shocked at the deal, until my saves wouldn’t load.

Well, that’s a reasonable outcome. But I have 4! So I’ll just double save! Until both cards were defective and couldn’t load.

I know, I’ll go nuclear. 4 saves, per game, per memory card. 16 layers of redundancy. It worked. It worked beautifully, until one day when it suddenly didn’t.

75% of the way through Final Fantasy Tactics, my save failed. And then it failed again, and again, and again and again and again and again and again, until I got to the last save file, and saw the message I had been dreading.

All. 16. Saves. Corrupted.

I thought I was flexing with my magnitude of available data, but it was all for naught. Turns out it’s the quality of the data, not the quantity that matters