Whose to say you’d have a computer compatible with the disc and the drive in 15 years?
And even if the platters are irreparably stuck you could go to a data recovery service and still pull the files off that way.
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obinice@lemmy.world 4 months agoAssuming the drive spins back up after being left in a cupboard for 15 years, if you’re still even able to find a computer compatible with whatever cables it used back then. But yeah.
Whose to say you’d have a computer compatible with the disc and the drive in 15 years?
And even if the platters are irreparably stuck you could go to a data recovery service and still pull the files off that way.
orangeboats@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If proper SATA ever goes away, I’d wager that there will still be SATA-to-USB adapters on sale. Heck, people still find ways to connect floppy drives to their modern PCs.