gru:Bz
Average millennial living life on the edge (of the Midwest)
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
You cannot trust any medium, so you copy important things over and over, into fresh storage. “Optical media rots, magnetic media rots and loses magnetic charge, bearings seize, flash storage loses charge, etc.,” writes user abracadaniel. “Entropy wins, sometimes much faster than you’d expect.”
Backups are important