Information Degradation - is it possible to preserve information?

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aleksas

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Now that some of the files on my USB have been corrupted, I was thinking about information degradation and I came to realize that all of my favorite songs and movies would eventually fade away. No matter how many times you copy it onto a new device, a little is lost and that builds up over time (thousands of years perhaps). Is this how it works? Is it really the case that we can not preserve anything for very long periods of time, or is there a way?
 
As long as you have a solid original file then your good. Always have a backup process in place. Hard drives, usb sticks will all fail at some point. cd's/dvd's will last a long while as long as you don't scratch the disks.
 
Depends. Digital media is 1:1 binary specific. If you transfer it between devices it's the exact same code, unlike a VHS or record where the physical media wears with each read.

What happened prior to your corruption? Did you remove the media as files were being written to it?
 
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