<story><title>Iron Mountain: It&apos;s Time to Talk About Hard Drives</title><url>https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgarland</author><text>Related, CD-Rs. When I left my submarine in 2013, they (by which I mean the entire Virginia class) were still using them to store archived logs, despite my explanation that they’d be lucky to get a decade out of them. The first chosen storage location was literally the hottest part of the engine room, right in between the main engines. Easily 120+ F at all times. After protest, we moved ours to a somewhat cooler location. Still hot, and still with atmospheric oil and other fun chemicals floating around.&lt;p&gt;I look forward to the first time logs from a few decades ago are required, and the media is absolutely dead.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: they weren’t even Azo dye, they were phthalocyanine. A decade was probably generous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6510</author><text>I was curious how some of the more wealthy yacht owners solved the marine puzzle. What kind of computer would they use? What kind of parts would go in? What would a basic system cost? So I asked one, he opened up a compartment with a stack of cheap Acer laptops vacuum sealed in bags. They last 2 to 6 months, when they stop working he throws them away. The sealed one has everything installed, a full battery and will sync as soon as internet becomes available. When plugged into something the new laptop is never the problem. He spend a small fortune arriving at this solution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Iron Mountain: It&apos;s Time to Talk About Hard Drives</title><url>https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgarland</author><text>Related, CD-Rs. When I left my submarine in 2013, they (by which I mean the entire Virginia class) were still using them to store archived logs, despite my explanation that they’d be lucky to get a decade out of them. The first chosen storage location was literally the hottest part of the engine room, right in between the main engines. Easily 120+ F at all times. After protest, we moved ours to a somewhat cooler location. Still hot, and still with atmospheric oil and other fun chemicals floating around.&lt;p&gt;I look forward to the first time logs from a few decades ago are required, and the media is absolutely dead.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: they weren’t even Azo dye, they were phthalocyanine. A decade was probably generous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1oooqooq</author><text>That sounds like it was very much by design and nobody wanted those logs to survive</text></comment>