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> spinning rust

TIL

https://etherealmind.com/network-dictionary-spinning-rust/

> Spinning Rust – term for conventional hard disk drives with motors and using ferrous-based platters for data storage. Probably derogatory now that Flash Drives are beginning to replace conventional drives.

TIL? Goddamnit, how old am I?

But the rust which is supposed to be spun, doesn't live long when not being spun?

So far the most viable "solution" is to store data in the cloud service like Backblaze or AWS S3, where it's someone else headache to maintain high enough duplication and swap the drives as they reach their EOL.

I believe HDDs slowly lose stored data if you don't rewrite it periodically? I remember reading some data recovery forum a few years back with the local experts saying something about 10 years of reliable data storage for an HDD lying on a shelf. After that, all bets are off.

and/or add some degree of redundancy and error correction to the storage codec