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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Metal can rust. Stone is the only true storage medium.
Edit: seriously, yeah, I check my external drives regularly and have swapped them out more than once. When the time comes they may no longer be accessible, I'll transfer my stuff to something else.
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I do the same thing with my external hard drives. After a year or two I purchase a new one, do a copy and paste from the old drive, and then retire the old drive. Fortunately, the cost of external hard drives have been dropping, where each time I buy one the cost of the drive is less than the last one but the amount of storage is more than that last one. I've gone from 1/2GB, to 1GB, to 2GB over the past few years.