Are Disc Players Dead?

Kijanki:

I have not had a hard drive fail either, but I use very expensive SCSI drives for my servers. The popular and cheap SATA drives have a poor reliability record. Just look at the selection of reviews on NewEgg for any of them.

Even though I have not had a drive failure, migrating data from older SCSI drives is still a major pain. Newer drives are much faster and have different connectors, so getting data off an older SCSI drive is problematic from a system integration point of view. And I did have a lot of data stored on Jazz media, now you cannot find a playback/read device for these unless you get some used junk off EBay.

I have not heard of any media that has a real, proven 100 year lifespan. You are luckiy if you can get most consumer burned media to play back properly in more than one playback device.

Online backups are an option but even the fastest wideband is gonna take quite a while to download 1 Terabyte in data.

Ladies, gentlemen, and other harddrive users, do remember that there are only 2 kinds of HDs--those that have failed and those that will. That's supposed to remind you do create backups of your data as others have mentioned they do.

And no, discplayers are NOT dead. I suspect there are FAR more users of discplayers than computer-music-servers among musiclovers.
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Dhl93449 - Taiyo Yuden guarantees 100 years. The issue is dye. Long lasting phthalocyanine dye (Mitsui Gold, Mitsui Silver) is more expensive than cyanine dye and can last 200 years on gold but is more sensitive to light and laser power variations. Cyanine dye is by itself unstable and has to be stabilized. I'm not sure what Taiyo Yuden uses but they invented CD-R technology and are known to be very reliable and long lasting. I went thru perhaps 500 Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs and never had bad one or one that failed. I have many about 15 years old CD-Rs working fine.

As for hard drives - I might be very lucky but I had only one disk failure at work and one at home (laptop) in last 25 years. Currently I'm running 6 hard disks at home and 2 at work for many years without any problems. In addition to these 6 drives I have two backups - just in case. Very often people who have failures are more likely to write but even then my drives (Fantom G-Force) have pretty good review. As soon as prices of SS drives drop down more I'm getting one for music storage.

I had 5 hard drives fail in 5 years.

"I had 5 hard drives fail in 5 years."

We have whole bunch of computers at work, perhaps 30, and one or two failures over 20 years. We end up replacing computers earlier (10 years or so) because they're getting outdated - that might be the reason. What is the brand that gave you 5 failures in five years?