It isn’t vulnerable to physical degradation.
Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 11 months 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 11 months ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months 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 11 months ago
Back the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.
Buck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.
sudoku@programming.dev 11 months ago
Too bad it’s not applicable to defective-by-design appliances like the PlayStation 5.