Comment by kakacik
4 days ago
A bit too much drama for nothing - storage was never reliable, HDDs were dying since forever. So anybody serious with backups did multiple physical copies, which is a strategy relevant also today.
With that, nothing is lost unless facing a proper clusterfuck. Just checked my photos from 2004 trip to US where I bought my first digital camera, yepp all good across few older and one new HDD.
The article's point is that nobody knows this, which is true. This was a non-event for me too, as I just moved my entire dataset as I upgraded disks (and had backups) but I had multiple disks and was meticulous with having my data in one place, two things that basically no non-techie will do.