Translations:Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts/89/en

Monitoring Storage Media is necessary to timely detect any errors or damage, as well as to prevent it from becoming obsolete or outdated. Over time, storage media can become unstable and unreliable and cause data corruption or loss. A rule of thumb for a safe preservation practice is for storage media to have a short life cycle, sometimes estimated at only three to five years. This means that after this period, we will need to find and obtain a new storage media and migrate our data to it.