I mean, don’t we all; time erodes us all… that being said how do hard-drives decay, compared to other things like VHS tapes and DVDs?
the only thing that we can do to ensure the integrity of our data archives is to completely rewrite them to newer media with backups every three to five years.
Eh, okey… that’s a solution…
Spake for thy liberal impotence… you do remember a sample of the peacekeeping missions they did:
The Korean War - 1950s
The Congo conflict - 1960s
Rwanda and Yugoslavia - 1990s
Haiti - 2004-2017
Heck, they were there peacekeeping in Libnan and Syria…