Lee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agoPlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership suckswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up1778arrow-down112cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]technology
arrow-up1766arrow-down1external-linkPlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership suckswww.theverge.comLee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square178fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]technology
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 months agoIt isn’t vulnerable to physical degradation.
minus-squareShurimalcakelinkfedilink7•6 months agoBack the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•6 months agoYeah, I’m at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.
minus-square@PM_Your_Nudes_PleaselinkEnglish5•edit-26 months agoYeah, lots of newbies fall victim to this. Nobody wants to believe hard drives fail, until their hard drive is dead and they’ve lost all their data. I believe there’s a saying along the lines of “nobody wants to build earthquake-proof houses before the first earthquake.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoYea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.
minus-squareBucklinkEnglish2•6 months agoUnless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.
It isn’t vulnerable to physical degradation.
Back the fuck up! If you only have one copy, you have none.
Yeah, I’m at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.
Yeah, lots of newbies fall victim to this. Nobody wants to believe hard drives fail, until their hard drive is dead and they’ve lost all their data.
I believe there’s a saying along the lines of “nobody wants to build earthquake-proof houses before the first earthquake.”
Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.
Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.