Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed - eviltoast

Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s almost certainly tape, a single LTO9 cartridge can hold 18TBs of data for cheap compared to the equivalent drive.

    Blu-ray is unlikely, only quad layer BR have a decent capacity at 125GB each and quality ones are hard to find these days. Sony has even stopped making their blu ray based Optical Disk Archival system thing.

    • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      It’s almost certainly spare space from massive S3 disk pools that’s unused.