It isn’t vulnerable to physical degradation.
Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Counterpoint: digital ownership — true ownership when you have the actual files — is amazing. It’s the media panacea we’ve wanted for years. Storage is cheap, content is boundless, and if you curate your own collection you can usually get it anywhere you want.
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Yeah, I’m at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.
Shurimal@kbin.social 1 year ago
Back the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, lots of newbies fall victim to this. Nobody wants to believe hard drives fail, until their hard drive is dead and they’ve lost all their data.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.
Buck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.
sudoku@programming.dev 1 year ago
Too bad it’s not applicable to defective-by-design appliances like the PlayStation 5.