What Is Digital Decay & Data Degredation?

blognet   Friday, December 24, 2021   How to, Make it Useful   Comment  

Did you know that files you store digitally (on CDs, hard disk drives, solid-state drives, memory cards) are more fragile than physical files? That's right: just as our photographs and printed files yellow and wear out over time, similar things also happen to your digital files and data. So, are your digital files safe? How does data decay, and what can you do to prevent your data from degradation?