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   Dorothea Salo (dsalo@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 22:47:02 JST Dorothea Salo

   WAREHOUSING HARD DRIVES IS NOT DIGITAL PRESERVATION.

   FFS.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

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     Dorothea Salo (dsalo@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 22:47:02 JST Dorothea Salo

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     THIS IS WHY YOU HIRE LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS TO DO DIGITAL PRESERVATION.

     IDEALLY ONES TRAINED BY SOMEONE LIKE ME, WHO DAMN WELL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS.

     DON'T HIRE IT PEOPLE TO DO THIS. STANDARD-ISSUE IT PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DAMN WELL DOING. (ASK THE STATE OF MAINE.)

     LIBRARIANS. AND. ARCHIVISTS. KNOW.