The Experts Saving Historical Master Tapes are Ditching Digital Archives for a ‘Dead’ Format After Losing Fifty Million Songs

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The Experts Saving Historical Master Tapes are Ditching Digital Archives for a ‘Dead’ Format After Losing Fifty Million Songs

The math that drove their decision flips everything assumed about modern versus outdated storage.

www.headphonesty.com

 

[long_time_Dish]

Yes, that's why I have a very large library of physical media of various types...

 

[comfortably_numb]

I now have triple redundancy for my media: cloud, flash, and HDD. Not quite ready to go "back" to tape yet..

 

[long_time_Dish]

Not ready to go back to tape either, though I do have a Teac A4300 reel-to-reel deck for some tapes that I still have from back in the day. I have 1000+ CDs, 200+ LPs, 375-400 BDs. I also have digital media on flash and internal & external HDDs and SSDs. I'm not trusting cloud storage as it's out of my hands and can be "oops'd" too easily. Next for me: a NAS with multiple drives for redundancy...

 

[comfortably_numb]

Techonology

www.mdisc.com

 

[long_time_Dish]

Techonology

www.mdisc.com

Sounds great, but to claim 1000 years durability when they haven't been around even 20 years seems a bit of a stretch...