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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: OT: backup panic?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:16:11 -0700
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:47:58 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying:
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/?comments=1&comments-page=1
>The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
>
>Backup panic?
>I have a thousand or more CD's and DVDs in a light proof alu box
>I have some 24 year old floppies and a USB floppy reader...
>And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
>A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
>Many old SDcards.
>I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation.
>:-)

Copy them to Dropbox before it's too late.