celeb news 20% of hard drives used for music storage in the 90s have failed

[Wicked]

4 hours ago, MatiRod said:

This is something I think about. Will Spotify be around in 50 years? Where will my masters be stored at that point? Technically Warner distributes them, but what if they're not around? Or bought up by a different company and they delete part of their data to save money on server storage fees. CDs and vinyls degrade over time. Let me etch the sheet music onto a cave wall bc at least that **** lasts thousands of years.

M-Discs claim 1,000 years of reliability, and they recently got certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as an archive option for 100+ years after rigirous testing (how they respond to extreme heat/cold and other tests). I'd look into that, they're write-once. You can get them on Amazon too, they're kind of pricey ($100 USD for 15 discs of the 25GB bluray option) and you have to buy a drive that specifically has M-DISC support in order to put files on it. Some US goverments have transitioned to it for storage.

 

I don't have music on mine, mostly digital photos I've taken that I want to last as long as possible lol. 

[Into The Void]

Why would hard drives from the 90s still be good lol

[LesFleur]

Thank God most of The Supremes' previously unreleased material has been released over the years 

 

Still praying Michelle blesses us with the original, r&b version of Unexpected

 

[Badgalbriel]

90s? What the hell are they still doing in hard drives? Cloud this sh*t

[SapphireSky]

I'd die if I lost my music folder 

[AxelFox]

Beyoncé sitting on those Renaissance visuals for so long until the hard drive they're on will be dead and they'll be lost forever  

 

I hope miss Blue goes through a rebel phase asap and leaks her mama's stuff online before it's too late