On Thursday 09 July 2020 07.54:26 deloptes wrote:
Michele Calgaro via trinity-users wrote:
Harddisks do fail from time to time, that is why I suggested you could use more than one. The likelihood of 2 or more HD failing at the same time + your main HD to fail at the same time as well is super low.
Don't go for a promotion and buy several from the same production lot. Did that one time and the three discs died the same week... So super low but possible.
Last year I checked many backup cds from the past before throwing away. Some written in 2002 were working and most written in 2007 were failing.
The fist recordable CDs were *a lot* more expensive then. I guess you get what you pay for.
The hard drives written back then still work.
I got some Samsungs that would never power on after a few years on the shelf.
So, for very important data, I backup on everything :) When you loose data and have no backup you can curse your own stupidity. But when you know you are secure because you have a backup and then your backup is unreadable...
Thierry
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