[EN] When Bits Rot - with C McKean, L Talboom, A Page-Mitchell

About this episode

The episode discusses the decay of various data storage media and the importance of recovering data from old drives.

English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell, we're going to talk about what kinds of data we find on old drives, why we want to get them in the first place, and what can go wrong with the storage media. To all of you who love all things retro - we'll be talking about floppy disks a bit. Links: https://en.wikipedia.or...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Schmidt

Guests: Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom, Adrian Page-Mitchell

Topics covered

• data storage
• media decay
• retro technology
• floppy disks
• data recovery

Keywords

• floppy disks
• hard drives
• CDs
• DVDs
• SSD drives
• data recovery
• media decay

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikipedia

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