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

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In Reply to: RE: 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 !

Follow Ups:

"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)
Earlier this week I lost access to an external HHD that holds a massive amount of music, videos, photos, personal docs, big spreadsheets. No recent backup... only way too old partial exists. Not a good start to my day. Damn you, Byrd.

Messed around a bit with no luck getting access. Returned later, prepared to rebuild my budget. Wo! The drive was back. I immediately backed up to the internal HHD and SSD drives, and after that a new SSD I bought last year and stupidly never put it to use.

I'm backed up now!

Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)

I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)

Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)

Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
- Whew! You lucked out.... - AbeCollins 09:45:28 09/13/24 (3)
  It's good to check on those old HDD and SSD now and then that have been sitting on a shelf.
  One of my first SSD's many years ago was a 128GB unit. I later upgraded to 512GB and placed the 128GB SSD in a drawer. When I went back to the 128GB SSD a couple years later to see what I had on it, it was toast. I couldn't access that SSD at all. SSD's in particular are not something you store away for a prolonged period of time w/o ever powering them ON. They WILL lose their data. HDD's are actually better in this regard.
  
  Edits: 09/13/24
  - 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 w/o ever powering them ON. They WILL lose their data.
    
    The pair of 120 GB SSDs I store are regularly rotated for latest Carbon Copy Cloner image of the MacMini.
  - "SSD's in particular are not something you store away for a prolonged period of time" - 1973shovel 10:31:23 09/13/24 (1)
    I didn't know that, so thank you. I just powered mine up.
    - Newer ones are better but.... - AbeCollins 11:14:28 09/13/24 (0)
      ...historically the early SSDs were more prone to data loss if not powered ON occasionally.
      
      Edits: 09/13/24

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