Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.
how did these people not know that hard drives die??? CDs die. DVDs die. the only way to keep your data is to copy it periodically, and this has always been true.
ffs, fucking DNA survives because life keeps copying it all the time.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Isnt the standard preservation system tape drives? They tested the longevity of different storage solutions ages ago to avoid stuff like this.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It is. Magnetic type is still king.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Not really. Disk took over when the clouds started offering cheap archiving. Tape is getting more and more rare.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Not really. Disk is king now since S3 storage took the crown when cloud services started offering cheap archiving. Anything still on disk from the 90s is some neglected archive that has been deemed by the company to have no value.
I would assume they’re finding this out now because they’re trying to feed their whole archive to the AI beast.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah no, thats not an “archive” you are talking about thats just a bunch of storage. Archives are for things like historical, government, artistic data. That stuff sits in airtight cases on tape storage in a bunker.
Obviously any drive that is constantly in use to deliver data to customers is gonna die, thats never going to change. But these were actually intended to be used for archiving but failed at doing exactly that.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Disk is king when you need lots of active storage.
When it comes to archival Tape is king. I would never trust an HDD to be left unpowered for years like you could a tape cartridge.
And a single LTO9 cartridge can hold 18TBs for dirt cheap compared to the equivalent HDD
justinthegeek@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
S3 archive is on glacier which is all tape