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

[DingusDog]

I have a couple WD 500Gb IDE drives that are almost 20 years old and a couple 80Gb drives even older than that. All of them still work. Nothing important on them though.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

I’d be curious. If we ask AI to generate an original recording of “Let it be” by the Beatles, I suppose people might eventually confuse it for the original.

How Artificial Intelligence Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony

On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[jp7189]

Can't say I'm a huge AI fan... but I did download an app recently and posted a pic of my new motorcycle with the comment "Roast my bike in one paragraph" and I was falling out of my chair laughing. Good stuff.



I have a couple 2.5 8TB SSDs and a 12TB HDD. All 3 are backups of the same data. I guess the only thing I'm doing wrong is they are all hooked up to the same power supply?

I wasn't thinking of a LLM AI, although I guess that's where the public mind share lies. AI today is a fantastic probability engine. Feed incomplete data have it fill in the blanks. E.g. stable diffusion starts with completely random pixels and creates a coherent image guided by a text prompt. Signal analysis and data recovery work similarly.


I would run fast and far from SSDs as backup media. Standard HDDs are far superior for longevity. Also, there's not a lot to gain by having multiple copies in the same location. Store at least one copy in a different location. Friend's house, bank safe deposit, etc. Just make sure to update it from time to time.

 

[DavidC1]

We’ve even seen a startup working on archival glass storage that it claims could last 5,000 years.

Oh right. People can barely live 1/50th of that and they predict it'll definitely last that long somehow.

I guess in the current climate you have to hype it to an unrealistic degree to get investors, practically lying.

We'll see when the tech arrives whether it even lasts 20 years, nevermind 5,000. There are only things time will solve.

 

[Johndoe85]

While I think your comment was meant to be snarky, it is true that AI is fantastic at filling it missing gaps. If these drives had media errors it is likely AI could help. Not so much for a completely lost drive.

How was his comment ment to be snarky?

 

[jp7189]

How was his comment ment to be snarky?

I took it that way because of the ongoing angst of artists worried that AI is ripping off their work. However, right now AI can't duplicate original works very well. What you end up with is akin to a charicture artist creating a work that resembles a person while being goofy at the same time.

 

[rumburak]

I just recently got a bluray burner to transfer some old data from CDs and DVDs. Crazy how it will all fit onto a single 25GB bluray. I remember back in the day getting dual layer DVDs to maximize storage.

Viable option if only data on those DVDs or CDs were not protected from copying

 

[Heiro78]

Viable option if only data on those DVDs or CDs were not protected from copying

I wrote the data so it's not protected