QOTD: Have you ever suffered significant data loss? If so, what went wrong?
@mckinley@twtxt.net the best way to suffer no data loss is to not have data at all. 😂 I haven’t lost a single datum.
@bender@twtxt.net Fair point… :)
@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, over 20 years ago, a hard disk died. Not completely, only some parts of it, but it was enough to destroy ~30 GB or something like that.
I bought a lot of DVDs over time and many of them have become unreadable. Star Trek DS9 is among the victims, parts of TNG, parts of X-Files. Really annoying. I didn’t have the required disk space to make backups and, honestly, didn’t think they would die so quickly. When/if I buy movies these days, I either make a backup right away or I treat those DVDs as “will die soon”. 🫤
CDs regularly die, too, although not as often as DVDs.
And of course, lots of floppy disks are dead now. 😂🫤