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vinyl records are having their revenge.
by toolslive 6y ago
vinyl records are having their revenge.
- gruez 6y agoIsn't that trading one failure mode for another? While vinyl records won't rot over time, they do wear down, and thus the sound quality deteriorates each time you play it.
- laumars 6y agoIn theory, yes. But in practice it’s not at any rate that most people should worry about. Plus some records are more durable than others. One could extend the vinyl argument and say there’s no such thing as a storage medium without a failure mode. Cassettes have problems, HDDs can fail, even solid state systems only have a limited life. The best we can do is backup.
- toolslive 6y ago> The best we can do is backup. No. The best you can do is use mathematics to compensate. In essence represent the data as a set of equations and generate extra ones that will be useful in case you lose one. They have been doing this for decades in telecom/storage.
- laumars 6y agoAnd as I already said, storage will always be subject to fail. You can have 10 TB of parity for a 1 MB file but if that data isn’t distributed then you’re still vulnerable. So the problem is analog vs digital nor the lack of mathematics in vinyl; it’s that ultimately any form of storage media requires a physical device and physical devices are bound to the problems of the physical world. This, by the way, is also why Amazon has multiple data centres in any given region. Why backups should always be stored off site, and why DR solutions are based in different physical premises.
- gnabgib 6y agoClearly you've never left a prized record in a hot car/direct sun :( Suspect you're just /s though
- lsllc 6y agoSounds like time to build an optical pickup head for vinyl -- no wear or static, but you get the "vinyl" experience.