will bit-rot destroy all my images and even my covers on music files?

>>105720303 (OP)
yes, nothing lasts forever.
just back your shit up every 5 years on brand new hard drives

bit-rot doesn't really affect newer nvme storage, but now we have to worry about quantum evaporation

You telling me a FLAC file can degrade?

>>105720477
on a timescale large enough, everything does
in computers this tends to be ~10 years id say
an unused sdd can decay in 1 year if you dont energize it in between i heard

>>105720477
on magnetic storage, yes.

>>105720501
>havent backed up my music in 10 years
Its unironically over

life is short i would worry about yourself first.

>>105720526
its not a hard limit either
but not checking your backups in 10 years is dumb
and you should use two different, separate techs as media
its hardere to find yourself in a situation which fucks all your backups all at once
like you go with spinning rust, but you also go with dvds
if you get hacked and your data ransomed, your dvds are ok
or if you have a leak in your roof and the dvds in the attic are flooded, your hdd is safe

>two
*multiple
but two is the minimum
so that you can rebuild if one fails
its unlikely all your solutions will fail all at the same time

>bit-rot
no such thing. in over 30 years of using computers, I can't recall a single instance of my data going bad on itself.
well, ok, I am not counting floppies, which basically could get corrupted by sitting too close to an engine on a tram.

Correct
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>105720501
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>105720549
Correct but still risky
>105720562
Wrong
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>105720534
Retard
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>>105720303 (OP)
Only if you don't back up properply

>>105720592
Optical disc rot is real. Plenty of shitty audio CDs pressed in yurop in the 90s that started to either delaminate or oxidize. And I have a handful of crappy CD-Rs and DVD-Rs that are now unreadable, but those are usually on the media that failed to burn so often I only had "one purchase"s worth. I don't think I've ever put a Taiyo Yuden disc in and had it not read, and I've tried 26 year old burns...

>>105721728
>delaminate or oxidize
humidity
uv
chemical instability
theres plenty of ways cds can go bad given enough time
esp the last one
cds arent made to the same standards as fucken medical implants lamao
imperfect proportions = leftover reagents
and less stable compounds to begin with

zfs plus ECC RAM solves this

>>105721728
>Optical disc rot is real
this I can believe. some of my cheap CD-Rs started to de-laminate a couple years after burning. but those were really bottom of the barrel discs.

>>105722555
Yeah, it seems to be limited to the cheap shite discs. When I started burning discs as a kid I just had whatever spindle pops grabbed, and when/where he grew up - "Made in Japan" = good, so all of my oldest burns are either those DARK ass 4x Verbatim discs or Taiyo Yuden discs. 0 failures on a few hundred ~26 year old CDs.
>old enough to pay for my own shit working part time in high school
>buy some whatever shit CDs
>coasters
>use them when friends mooch warez
>learn about MCC
>check pops' discs
>all MCC or TY
>buy those instead
When the nips ended domestic production of BD-Rs, optical media truly died for me...

>>105723383
yep, Verbatim was the good shit. I was looking into M-Disc recently, but I don't think I will bother.

>>105723470
M-DISC was good for DVDs if you had a burner that could handle them. No point whatsoever to M-DISC BD-R, chemistry is identical to regular ones.

>>105720303 (OP)
this isnt what a real glitched jpg looks like and was made with something like photoshop