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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Yeah if you're looking for long term it needs to be archival media. Many people think the flash drive will hold it forever but they are potentially the most fickle.
But what actually is "archival"?
Like, what technology normal person has access to counts at least as enthusiast level archival?
Magnetic tape, optical media, flash, HDD all rot away, potentially within frighteningly short timeframes and often with subtle bitrot.
Cloud storage? Store it on 2 different providers like B2 and iDrive or something, pretty low complexity.
You have to hope neither goes out of business either.
That's why you have 2, there's no solution for long term storage that requires zero checking on things that I can think of.