Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.

  • Gucci_Minh [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Yeah I work for a place that uses discs for archival in addition to tapes and the discs do have specific requirements for storage, like opaque boxes in a temp and humidity controlled room. The discs are also some fancy Japanese brand I’ve never heard of. Probably best not to pickup a pack of CD-R at the walmart and use those.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      i’ve had factory printed DVDs die while stored at room temperature in the dark (case). they just developed holes.