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Vinyl, the Minidisc and an AVA DAC........

WaynerN said:
Well, so far flash drives have a 100% survival rate, USB harddrive has 100% failure rate.
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My personal (quite large) sample shows roughly equal failures from both; extending the sample set to include my colleagues and students at my former workplace puts the spinning platter hard-drives slightly ahead in the reliability sweepstakes. So I wouldn't rely on either alone, at least not without multiple backups in multiple places on various storage media.

Every storage medium is an unrecoverable failure that just hasn't happened yet. They're like light bulbs -- they all burn out eventually, you just don't know when.
 
I must have over 200 live shows on minidisc but my player a Pioneer MJ-D707 has developed a TOC error,sad really.
 
DaveVoorhis said:
My personal (quite large) sample shows roughly equal failures from both; extending the sample set to include my colleagues and students at my former workplace puts the spinning platter hard-drives slightly ahead in the reliability sweepstakes. So I wouldn't rely on either alone, at least not without multiple backups in multiple places on various storage media.

Every storage medium is an unrecoverable failure that just hasn't happened yet. They're like light bulbs -- they all burn out eventually, you just don't know when.
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On the other hand, none of my LPs have "failed" and turntables are abundant here......:)
 
Well there always could be the day that I achieve the perfect backup plan, only to be run over by a truck the next morning.........Like the guy that walked out of the health fitness studio an was run over by a truck.
 
It's ironic that the simplest (vinyl) and the most complex (CD) formats are both excellent for archival/backup purposes.

Everything else is seriously flawed IMO.

Consider whatever you use to electronically backup will either fail, have irrecoverable data corruption/loss, or need to be migrated to another storage medium at some stage (new interfaces/formats etc). The greater the data density, the greater the likelihood of mass data loss or complete data loss. Just because you can fit your entire music collection on a single SSD doesn't mean it's a good idea. You know the saying about eggs and baskets...

The original source and dedicated hardware to play that source, defeats any of those issues.
 
I've a NAS at the house in CT and one at the apartment in NYC. They replicate with each other via site-to-site VPN. The CT NAS snapshots to another NAS in CT for backup. CT listening room Mac mini does one-way sync from the CT NAS to local SSD. The computers in my NYC office and Long Island office do the same. So one replicated copy, a snapshot copy going back 20 versions and three SSD copies, two of which are different locations than the NASs.

Nailed it.
 
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