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Will data rots away in HDD when not in use?
(alien.top)
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
To the best of my knowledge and reading many insightful posts here, magnetic HDD have a higher chance preserving data if stored in good conditions (no water or humidity, far from magnetic fields, …). SSDs as I was told need to be powered in order to preserve data begging the question about the usefulness of external SSDs.