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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Will data rots away in HDD when not in use? (alien.top)
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Sorry for the noob question. TL DR is the title + how long will it take for the data to started getting corrupted?

Some back story: i'm "the media guy" for my workplace and I tend to keep all the RAW photos, videos, all the rest of it, on my own drives. Now that I'm moving to another branch office, I might not need the data to be accessed as frequently, so I'm planning to only put them in a 2 TB ext 2.5' HDD that has been serving as the on site backup for those files in the first place for about 2 years, and may not touch it for a long time. The main copies are in an equally large ext SSD, which I intend to delete after I have completely moved office. I do have an off site backup.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Will rot away on anything, use or no use, at least in this universe. It's called entropy. Have multiple copies, check them periodically and refresh as they die.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m confused, I’m not totally 100% sure what you mean by entropy in the context of storage media, would you mind elaborating?