Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    Yeah no, thats not an “archive” you are talking about thats just a bunch of storage. Archives are for things like historical, government, artistic data. That stuff sits in airtight cases on tape storage in a bunker.

    Obviously any drive that is constantly in use to deliver data to customers is gonna die, thats never going to change. But these were actually intended to be used for archiving but failed at doing exactly that.

    • Nomecks
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      -132 months ago

      Archive is whatever companies want it to be. I’ve been told anything that’s not microfilm isn’t an archive, so there you go.

        • Nomecks
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          2 months ago

          Sure, in the world of social media you can enforce whatever arbitrary terms you wish.

          “Hello Customer CIO, unexposedhazard on Lemmy says you’re using the term Archive wrong, so I’m going to have to ask you to stop.”

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        You’re currently having a conversation on an article about cold storage. The comment you replied to was about this article, and hence also about cold storage. It makes absolutely no sense to come into this conversation saying that they’re wrong about how cold storage works because your experience with hot storage doesn’t line up.