Fair enough, I misunderstood your argument. I appreciate your demonstration. Any chance you'd be willing to share your script? I have a few ideas on how to play with it.
Edit: I forgot, I actually had a HDD fail on me, luckily I was able to recover some of the data. Many .flac files on it were completely corrupted and unreadable past a certain point. The .aiff files I had were perfectly readable. I suspect they were at least partially corrupted. Luckily, I was able to re download all of the affected files. So, no data was actually lost.
No, definitely not. I don't think there is any news source I would trust 100%. You need to seek out multiple sources and try to sus it out yourself. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. I don't claim to have all the answers but in my experience state media tends to be less than trustworthy. I'd say BBC is okay but they've had some big fuck ups before.
Fuck Staind and Aaron Lewis but I was listening to their first album Tormented recently. The song four walls makes me cry almost every time. I was in a dark place back then and I've sort of circled back to that. I'll be okay though.
Sorry if I'm mostly focusing on paragraph 3 but I have to. MP3 CDs sound way worse than a redbook audio CD though. You can losslessly compress PCM by about 50% by using a codec like flac or alac, but there is data loss if you use a lossy format like .mp3.
You can compress 20 vacation photos taken by an iPhone 16 to fit on a 1.44 mb floppy disk and you will have something resembling the original data, but I think you'll agree it's worse.
Back to my original point, A CD-R is much more likely to reatain data for 5 years than an SSD is. Unless it's periodiclly powered on of couse.
I have an HDD from 2008 in my PC actually. I'm often impressed how long they can last.
I have CD-R demo discs from the early 00's that still play fine. Also according to Wikipedia: "On July 3, 1991, the first recording of a concert directly to CD was made using a Yamaha YPDR 601. The concert was performed by Claudio Baglioni at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome, Italy. At that time, it was generally anticipated that recordable CDs would have a lifetime of no more than 10 years. However, as of July 2020 the CD from this live recording still plays back with no uncorrectable errors."
Edit: Yes, a tape drive would be ideal but i'm poor af.
Me, they retain data alot longer than any solid state data storage device. They are much more usable for archival storage. Also I burn CD's to listen to music on my Stereo.
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Wait, this is a common occourrence? It's normal to see wasps on pastries?