Posted by Cliff Wild on 10/31/45 11:37

Ken Maltby wrote:
> While it is true that hard drives are backed-up in part
> because they may fail - "in service"; a number of respected
> organizations back-up to other hard drives. These drives
> are kept "out of service"/stored in a safe fashion. The main
> source of "disk failure" is a matter of critical data corruption,
> from software errors, human error or deliberately by a virus,
> things that don't happen to a hard drive in off line storage.
>
> Unless you keep your hard drives in a massive fluctuating
> magnetic field, the data on the platters will last several
> decades, in storage. Burned, die based DVDs are still a big
> question mark. And what evidence there is, supports the
> position that at least some dies are subject to deterioration/
> rot over time. It may be that the current dies have solved
> that issue, but only time will really tell.
>
> Luck;
> Ken

Exactly and thank you for making my point. I have a shelf of 15 HDDs that
just sit there in removable drawers. Sure it takes a few minutes to plug one
in. There are still people that are fascinated with burning DVDs I guess.

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