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

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isnt the standard preservation system tape drives? They tested the longevity of different storage solutions ages ago to avoid stuff like this.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not really. Disk is king now since S3 storage took the crown when cloud services started offering cheap archiving. Anything still on disk from the 90s is some neglected archive that has been deemed by the company to have no value.

I would assume they're finding this out now because they're trying to feed their whole archive to the AI beast.

[–] justinthegeek@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

S3 archive is on glacier which is all tape

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

No one really knows, and Amazon won't say. There's speculation it's tape, low-rpm drives connected to custom logic boards, Blu ray, etc.