PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!
the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with
@0x56 I made lots of efforts to use quality Taiyo-Yuden CDC's, but good reminder to move to a spare SSD / HDD.
I've heard from former WD tech that SD / flash cards (drives?) is bad for archival as they will also decharge / "forget" sooner than you'd expect.
@ShrikeTron @0x56 Are you talking about SSD’s? If so, yeah they aren’t good for storage long term. HDD’s are better, but those will fail eventually too. You need to move all the data off regularly, format the drive, and then put all the data back on to keep it from going bad.
I have a lot of failing CD-R’s. Verbatim ones seem to be the worst and were the most expensive ironically. TDK seems to have been the best. Thankfully I haven’t lost anything.
@TomatoGrilledCheese @0x56 Good response here for SSDs:
@ShrikeTron @0x56 Just read it. He's right. Basically you should have no less than two copies of your data.
I have a very simple system. I have drives in my PC and then I have external drives in cold storage that are a mirror of the data on the drives in my PC. Every few months I format the drives in storage and copy over all the data from my PC drives to them again.
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