this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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Person 1: "this thing isn't possible"
Person 2: it is, and I have experienced it myself.
Person 3: "yeah but here is a list of reasons I just made up why your experience doesn't matter"
The first comment was not saying "after long enough time certain drives do this/hardware degrades/won't run in modern machines", they were blanket stating "no storage lasts beyond 2-3 years"
I was trying to explain that the volatility of a 20+ year old hdd and hardware is very high. If there is important data to you, you may want to get it to a device that is not so volatile. Also it’s not like I made any of this up, I have a decade of it experience including plenty of data recovery. It’s how I know that the “no storage lasts beyond 2-3 years” statement is blatantly false.