»

[Pyromania]

http://www.zdnet.com/hitachi-reveals...rs-7000004714/

[klx300r]

funny how my old Vic20 and C64 datasette tapes and 5.25" floppies still work great after 29 years but CD's I made 9 years ago are 85% bad

personally I don't trust any of the flash memory technology for long term storage. I sometimes get scared thinking that all my kids photos since birth are on digital media which will eventually go bad while my parents have cherished family photos from over 100 years ago still in decent shape

[MiAmigo]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

http://www.zdnet.com/hitachi-reveals...rs-7000004714/

Sounds like crystal skull technology to me!

[commodorejohn]

Beats the hell out of "the cloud."

[Megamig]

Nice. But it will never be sold to the public. Why would all those media companies risk the billions they make to sell media that last this long?

[runequester]

Originally Posted by Megamig

Nice. But it will never be sold to the public. Why would all those media companies risk the billions they make to sell media that last this long?

And my wife keeps insisting that planned obsolescence isn't real

[som99]

40MB per square inch is decent and in par with the CD media so for me to store all my Amiga related media, manual collections, books, games, software, magazines, video etc etc will require me to get 55000 square inches (inch², inch^2) of quartzglas and est weight of 265kg wow :O

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by klx300r

funny how my old Vic20 and C64 datasette tapes and 5.25" floppies still work great after 29 years but CD's I made 9 years ago are 85% bad

Funny how my 8 year old CDs are all 100%. Perhaps it has something to do with me keeping them in a completely dark environment.

[klx300r]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Funny how my 8 year old CDs are all 100%. Perhaps it has something to do with me keeping them in a completely dark environment.

well you might be lucky and reach the 10 year mark but I'd be making quite a few backups if the info on those CD's are important to you

[orange]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

http://www.zdnet.com/hitachi-reveals...rs-7000004714/

bah, its not rewritable!

[paul1981]

Originally Posted by orange

bah, its not rewritable!

That's the whole idea!

[Kawazu]

Its about time, my last hitachi disk did not even last 2 years

[lassie]

Originally Posted by klx300r

funny how my old Vic20 and C64 datasette tapes and 5.25" floppies still work great after 29 years but CD's I made 9 years ago are 85% bad

personally I don't trust any of the flash memory technology for long term storage. I sometimes get scared thinking that all my kids photos since birth are on digital media which will eventually go bad while my parents have cherished family photos from over 100 years ago still in decent shape

I have many tapes and 5.25 floppies for my Commodore and some are well over 20 years old and they almost all work now i find that quite amazing

[lassie]

Originally Posted by Kawazu

Its about time, my last hitachi disk did not even last 2 years

It strange but new hard disks fail fast i have 5 there are around 20 years old and they still work. but many new do not last more than 5 years. Do you think they are cutting corners now and use cheap material to make them these days. It is the same with Playstation 2 and DVD players, they rarely work more than 5 years before they break down

[paul1981]

Originally Posted by lassie

It strange but new hard disks fail fast i have 5 there are around 20 years old and they still work. but many new do not last more than 5 years. Do you think they are cutting corners now and use cheap material to make them these days. It is the same with Playstation 2 and DVD players, they rarely work more than 5 years before they break down

I think the disk thrashing of Windows and maybe other OS's too (can't speak for them) kills hard disks (VM etc). File fragmentation will also reduce the life just as much. And then you have to remember that they're packing 200GB on a disk that 20 years previous held just 20MB, so tolerences are thousands of times tighter now.