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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Muckraker, when I say "media" I mean the storage hardware. Format refers to the software encoding and file format.
If you mean you've never had a hard drive crash, CD fail to read, or USB flash drive fail then consider yourself lucky. I and others have experienced all three. Old files also have a way of not getting copied onto newer media. If you are disciplined that way then I commend you. The world at large has ALREADY failed at that.
File formats have converters but they are not always up to the task. If you mean you'll write your own conversion routines in the far future then perhaps you'll make yourself a niche in the market. Because we ALREADY see failure to convert formats perfectly.
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Any fool who has been through the amount of hard disc crashes that I have, will know to store their data on more than one external hard drive. As we speak this very post is being stored on four separate external hard drives and on a secure online server.