Wouldn't matter if my disks failed but.....

Posted by AbeCollins (A) on September 13, 2024 at 07:14:41

In Reply to: Failure of music storage media posted by Mike K on September 12, 2024 at 17:49:10:

"You cannot trust any medium, so you copy important things over and over, into fresh storage."

I've said that before.

I'm sure this topic is an important one for the music industry but IMHO not nearly as critical for individuals when it comes to music. But if you're paranoid about it or just enjoy playing with the technology.....

Over the very long term whatever storage medium you use your data should be copied to new media every now and then. Fresh new disks or SSD.

I still have some music on my Synology NAS with the disks in a RAID configuration but those disk drives will eventually fail one by one. Rather than replacing one at a time it is best to consider replacing them all once failures start to occur. And keep a set of separate backup disks that you also check now and then and replace with new disks. Just stashing them away is not enough. Check them every few years to make sure you can still access the data on them.

But now we're getting extreme. Just how long do you want to archive your music? When I'm dead I no longer care. Will kids want my crap? Hell no! Besides, everything I have on disk is available via several high quality music streaming services. If I lost my entire hard disk based music collection today it wouldn't matter much.

I sold off most of my CD's and LP's a few years back.

Stream baby, stream !

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Topic - Failure of music storage media - Mike K 17:49:10 09/12/24 (12)

Wouldn't matter if my disks failed but..... - AbeCollins 07:14:41 09/13/24 (6)

"Stream baby, stream!" - Right on, Abe! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 11:06:29 09/14/24 (0)

I had my scare this week - Byrd69 09:36:08 09/13/24 (4)

Whew! You lucked out.... - AbeCollins 09:45:28 09/13/24 (3)

Kinda like SS vs tube - E-Stat 10:46:03 09/13/24 (0)

"SSD's in particular are not something you store away for a prolonged period of time" - 1973shovel 10:31:23 09/13/24 (1)

Newer ones are better but.... - AbeCollins 11:14:28 09/13/24 (0)

So... you know what we need, right? - mhardy6647 06:49:13 09/13/24 (0)

"Entropy Wins" - mhardy6647 06:32:04 09/13/24 (0)

I loved this comment - E-Stat 05:27:14 09/13/24 (0)

Hey - Easy come, easy go! - Chris from Lafayette 01:40:19 09/13/24 (0)

RE: Failure of music storage media - 6bq5 18:02:32 09/12/24 (0)

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Wouldn't matter if my disks failed but..... - AbeCollins 07:14:41 09/13/24 (6)

"Stream baby, stream!" - Right on, Abe! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 11:06:29 09/14/24 (0)

I had my scare this week - Byrd69 09:36:08 09/13/24 (4)

Whew! You lucked out.... - AbeCollins 09:45:28 09/13/24 (3)

Kinda like SS vs tube - E-Stat 10:46:03 09/13/24 (0)

"SSD's in particular are not something you store away for a prolonged period of time" - 1973shovel 10:31:23 09/13/24 (1)

Newer ones are better but.... - AbeCollins 11:14:28 09/13/24 (0)

Wouldn't matter if my disks failed but.....

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