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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by bluedino on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:56PM (#7374535)
>> Hard drives are much less reliable than tapes; hard drives aren't made to be stored on shelves;

I can back this up. For some reason, someone decided to back things up to hard drives and even though they are stored in anti-static bags in a 600lb fire safe, when I remove the drives from 1 year ago to re-write with that months backup, I've had up to 1/2 the drives not spin back up. Ugh.

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