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Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed
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So far over a span of maybe 40 years of computing I've only lost two HDDs. A number of 5 1/4 floppies back then but that was typical. Both drives I was able to pull most of the info off to a new drive, so yay for the mechanical drive, where a SSD you're left with either a miracle, or looking for the experts to retrieve something. I'm no power user, so perhaps that's part of the reason, but ever since we got into the giga and tera range of storage my first thought is always...wow, that's a lot to lose at one time.