the main problem of storing information over a long period of time is the possibility of reading and interpreting it with different technologies than the one with which it was originally written.
The original Compact disks that were written at 1x speeds or lower, can no longer be read by current dvd readers that read disks at speeds between 10x up to 32x or more.
Same with other media storage like writing on stone, although we can read them, we can no longer decode the written information with precision.
@llFike Says:
What exactly is a dry and cool environment?
@mirandela777 Says:
Very useful, professional, and clear. Thank you. I work for more than 30 years now in my own little shop of computer repairs, and I can confirm, from my own experience, all you said here is based in reality.
I will conclude, tough, we are still in the "Stone Age" of data preservation, and our tech do not evolved much in the last 30 -50 years, in this field. Like you said, we have much hope in the DNA data storing tech, yet we are light years away from this technology.
Sad, we are a dumb race, with self-destruction instincts, spending 95% + of our resources and time, in creating weapons and perpetuating wars, to benefit a few dozens of "golden elites", interested in their own selfishness, and only that, than in our advances as human race.
Data storage is fundamental for any advanced civilization, but we are not there, and I highly doubt we will ever be, with the current leadership and current tribal mentality.... We are closer to fusion than to genetic storage systems, yet we are a lot closer to self-destruction and/or absolute totalitarian regimes...
Thank you for your efforts to share with us these very useful data, Sir.
@petrslansky6659 Says:
I observed data fade on SSD in PC that was powered 24/7. Those were SSD from not top SSD manufacturer... I assume that QLC disks are at higher risk to this degradation.... Try to read disk with UNIX tool like dd, do you see any read errors? Then you have a problem...
@BumbleBeeTF Says:
Hello. I love your channel and this video is a perfectly timed blessing. I've reached out to you before and you gave me some very helpful advice. I DESPERATELY need your advice and there is nobody I'd trust more than you.
My Mom is in poor health and I don't think we will have her much longer. I would like to store family photos, videos, and info (maybe txt files with info and letters) on some sort of media to place in her casket when she passes. Btw here in this part of America she would be buried in a casket, which would be within a concrete vault, and I believe 6 or 8 feet in the ground (on top of a hill).
I realize there is no perfect solution to my question, but what storage solution would you use in this situation. Also what file formats would you use for documents?
I'm not really concerned about the price and I've considered maybe doing a few options together. Any advice on what you would do is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your channel and all that you do.
@inf008shorts Says:
While me:- Working on my 1TB hard drive for over 5 years as a programmer. 🗿🗿
@bobd5119 Says:
Back in the 1960's, I used punched tape. I forget specifics, but I think the tape was about an inch wide and carried 8 characters per inch. We had some aluminum tape clad in Mylar. That tape would probably last a couple thousand years, barring exposure to volcanoes or meteor impact.
Let's pretend the tape held 10 ch/inch. I calculate that 1 G characters would occupy 1,578 miles of tape. There's always a trade off.
@bobd5119 Says:
An excellent video. Thanks!
@OccamsPlasmaGun Says:
None of the failure modes of solid state or mechanical drives has a normal distribution. Most modes have exponential decay, so the standard deviation and mean are similar, with half failing over the MTBF.
@gontsekganyago4079 Says:
I just watch anime on my usb, how long? Please tell 5 years at least
@polaris1985 Says:
If apocolypse occurs like the zombie apocolypse in walking dead all data will be lost in 10 years.
@AbstractHexagon Says:
HDDs...3 years? Ehm No.
@TheBavaNeche Says:
I've got server hard drives that have been running since 2003.....with a motherboard included.
@maximusmiles8435 Says:
TBH I've never had a ssd fail. While I have a stack of dead hdd's. Just getting into nvme. The fool proof solution is RAID.
@m3sam Says:
I am reusing a HDD from my laptop for storing media that I purchased 12 years earlier and it is still going on
@genejing09 Says:
Haha, if we get to the point of having DNA storage, it would take the idea of a "thumb drive" to a whole different level.... LoL
@hansdampf2084 Says:
You forgot to mention that seagate will only last a year🤣
@helthuismartin Says:
This is why ancient people used stone tablets.
@JudahCrowe-ej9yl Says:
Not very safe 😔
@Kev2Bee Says:
You are answering questions that I have not considered asking.
Fabulous level of detail here.
Thank very much!
@michgingras Says:
i am sure this gentlement is a nice person, but geese does he give me the creepers (unrelated fact)
@godspeed3968 Says:
Hi sir im from India
Long term storage ssd or hdd which one is best for my family photos and videos.
How many years it works & which product you should suggest.
@LuBao-uu5js Says:
Only thing to complain about your video is the intro music. Annoying I always have to manually skip it.
@easyman2.1 Says:
Does read writer matters for HDD?
@RC-nq7mg Says:
My most recent drive failure had over 78,000 hours on it, and it hadn't completely failed yet, it was having seek issues but all data was intact.
@Awesomes007 Says:
Since getting long covid, I don’t even buy green bananas any more.
@rontarrant Says:
Does the amount of time to supply power to archive SSDs depend on their size? For instance, you said to keep an SSD plugged in for several hours once per year, but would it be proportionately less time for a thumb drive?
@Lugmillord Says:
This worries me with regards to my old SD cards holding Wii download games. They refuse to be copied and cannot be downloaded anymore.
@Artsificial Says:
This man is an OG.
@BBriscoe Says:
Great info, I have a caveat for an edge case with SSDs. If you are running a modern Windows with less than 8 GB of RAM. The OS will excessively write to virtual memory, and that will burn through the SSDs p cycles. I've seen many SSDs in this configuration die in less than a year.
@UnfilteredMedic Says:
Recently got a 4TB Kingspec SSD.
Died less than 2 weeks. "Fatal Error".
Windows Manager Event Viewer showed so many "Bad Blocks" I went cross eyed.
I have a 3.5 HDD that still works though is slow compred to modern HDDs.
I have two smaller 2.5 HDDs that still work but are in storage. For my needs I'll need a few more of these but newer to store as I don't want to lose the data by storing them on SSDs in long-term storage.
Another good video!!!
@mrrobot-mn6re Says:
You are the only nerd without a beard Tom
@necrotic256 Says:
Using 14y.o Samsung HDD and 9y.o Seagate HDD in my main home system right now without issues. Long life to your disks too
@Valet2 Says:
3-7 years for HDD? Where did you get that data? Mine work fine for 20 years and more. Both at work and at home.
@javabeanz8549 Says:
Great information. And that's a cute trick, where there's an animated ring on the Subscribe button while you are talking about like and subscribe.
@louf7178 Says:
My 40GB HDD still works - it must be 30 years old. It's amazing that it was a good-sized drive, and now it can be easily filled with a few pictures.
@Souzzer Says:
I have a wd blue 1tb from 2014 just fine
@walterlegere1403 Says:
Anyone who uses a PC and doesn't back up their data is not very wise. I have data stored on 3 1/2" floppies I've had for over 25 years and they still work. However, all that data has also been backed up to USB thumb drives as well. All sensitive data should be backed up to storage that isn't connected to the internet or accessible through a home network. Burning data to CD's or DVD's has become dated and has always been aggravating.
@shenidan2023 Says:
Well that was an excellent video ,thanks for taking the time to put it together. I'm now off on a journey to understand more about how SSDs work!
@iggienator Says:
I lost my files because my dna drive got cancer 😂
@jordig3412 Says:
very useful information , thx a lot ;-)
@Elias858 Says:
This video was amazing and highly informative. I feel I learnt more by watching this video rather than anywhere else in the whole internet. Thank you for this great gift
@niculae.alexandru81 Says:
i have 60k/h seagate and 120k/h wdblack, hdd's still going well, used for torrents. pc on 24/7
@QoraxAudio Says:
Is just leaving SSDs powered annually enough to prevent data fade or does it also require to rewrite the data?
@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm Says:
This was superb. Thank you sir.
@GamesHostelry Says:
Coukd someone summarize the video in a comment
@Boz1211111 Says:
Gotta say, hard disk life is not normal distribution most by most sources, but some other information is very acurate, just not all interpreted 100% but great work for putting the data in!
@The_Pariah Says:
I've owned many magnetic drives in my life from many different manufacturers and have worked with even more in my time as a tech.
I'd say no less than 80% of my personal drives that have failed in an unacceptable amount of time have been Western Digital drives.
I used to think they were great until I realized they weren't.
When it comes to work, I feel I've seen more WD failures than anything else, though it's hard to be fair when one company exclusively uses one brand of drive.
Going off personal experience, I feel WD drives are sub-par and not quality controlled well at all.
It wouldn't be so bad if I only lost a handful of WD drives, but when you've lost your 5th...10th...20th WD drive while only losing a handful of Seagates, the pattern moves from anecdotal to a reasonable source of data.
I stopped buying WD YEARS ago and I'll never ever go back. Even if a highly rated drive goes on an insane sale, it's just not worth the concern of data loss.
Hopefully those reading this comment will benefit from my bad experiences.
@The_Pariah Says:
You are an absolute geek.
And that's exactly why I keep watching your videos.
@Hun73rdk Says:
if you have windows installed your data is already leaked to there server so. if you use office all your date is at microsoft also
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