Refreshing Hard Drives

Topic

New Reply

I have a couple of external, USB hard drives on which I store some static data (photographs, etc.) for archival purposes. I’m not worried about the drives wearing out as I access them infrequently, but I am wondering if the magnetic data on the platters will fade with time making it inaccessible. Is this a real problem, and if so, does someone know of a program which I can run occasionally (maybe once a year) to refresh the data?

Reply | Quote

Replies

You need my Powershell “disk reader” program.
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/from-the-lounge-simple-and-cheap-data-backup-and-storage/#post-2318643

Don’t forget to read the accompanying article to find out why it works.

cheers, Paul

1 user thanked author for this post.

Cybertooth

Reply | Quote