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Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing (www.bbc.com)

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Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, "streaming anxiety" is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

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[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

No, I'm not saying replace the drive annually. That would, indeed, be dumb. I'm saying copy the data back and forth between hard drives that are kept offline.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

You'd be better off keeping the drives spun up. I've had more drive failures from drives not in use than powered up.

Mechanical stuff is just like people, it doesn't like sitting around doing nothing. Just like it's difficult for us to get moving after sitting for a long time, mechanical things struggle too. There's things like stiction in high-precision moving surfaces.

I don't trust drives that have sat around, I assume they're dead or at least the data corrupted.

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