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Some good ideas, here, John, thanks. I recently read an article questioning how long archived data will last on a hard drive, because of decay from - wait for it - radiation, occurring naturally in the environment. Wow. Always something to make things more complicated, isn't there?




Well, the magnetic media in a hard drive is indeed somewhat shielded by the total metal enclosure.

Storing a drive for archiving inside a metal cabinet yields yet another level of shielding.

Consider that analog magnetic tape masters are often stored with less shielding than that and yet can be taken out of archive and used for those digital remastering sessions. Typically other environmental factors can be far more detrimental to the magnetic media than "radiation" -- humidity, moisture, acid rain, temperature at storage, etc. Since the magnetic "rust" in a hard drive is applied to a hard and solid surface, it should be much more robust than magnetic media stored on acetates, mylars and other flexible media (tapes).


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