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Hard Drives:Your questions answered

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Are hard disks and USB sticks an alternative for storage or are they threatened by long-term deterioration or data failure as well? If so, after how many years?

The storage cells in USB sticks hold data for a maximum of 10 years without recording the data again. Apart from their price, therefore, they are not an alternative solution for long-term data storage.
In principle, hard disks can store data for longer. Given the moving parts they contain, however, they are more susceptible to failure. Then there is the fact that technical advances in hard disk controllers are occurring at a very fast rate, meaning that after a few years there will often be no compatible controller hardware available for reading them.

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Are hard disks and USB sticks an alternative for storage or are they threatened by long-term deterioration or data failure as well? If so, after how many years?