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What is Bit Rot - Damage in Hard Drives, SSD.

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Today we learn about What is Bit Rot - Damage in Hard Drives , SSD.


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Bit Rot is a real phenomenon that damages the bits and bytes of your files stored on hard drives, RAID, or optical media, over a period of time. It actually involves the gradual wearing of a region on a drive making the data on it corrupt, unreadable or finally erased.

Bit Rot is a threat to your valuable photos if you want to protect them for a longer period. Photos lost due to Bit Rot are not recoverable. Enterprises and highly technical users enable Bit Rot protection that detects Bit Rot errors and disk wipe techniques to protect data from loss from HDD, SSD and RAID.

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How to Protect your Photos from Bit Rot?

You have two choices to tackle the issue:

1. Either detect it early and take measures to retrieve the rest of the photos from the drive. But the drawback is till you detect Bit Rot, you have already lost some of the photos on the media.
2. Follow the ways that protect your photos by avoiding Bit Rot completely

Here picking the second option to avoid Bit Rot and any kind of photo loss, we bring the best ways that can protect your photos from Bit Rot.

Image result for bit rotWays to Protect your Photos from Bit Rot

  • Print your photos
  • Save in Cloud
  • Save in flash media
  • Store photos in local media
  • Archive photos on different media
  • Periodically save photos as new
  • Have a sound backup plan

Print your photos


In this digital era, keeping the prints of your precious photos may sound old school of thought. But if photos are printed on quality papers with good ink and kept in controlled conditions (humidity, temperature), they can last over 100 years.

Save in Cloud


Cloud storage is the safe way to store data for longer duration without much bothering yourself of protecting it. Cloud or online backup storage services like Backblaze or Carbonite are boon for videographers/photographers who have to manage large number of photos and videos. But before choosing the Cloud services, check for Bit Rot protection offered. Ensure the convincing answers for the below questions from your Cloud vendor:

  • How they resolve Bit errors?
  • What protection do they use against Bit Rot on Cloud servers?
  • What is the durability guarantee they offer?


Save in flash media


Flash media has proved to withstand the durability test. Unlike HDDs or optical media flash memory storage, flash media are less prone to scratches or other mechanical failures. You can save your photos in them and keep the device safely for as many years you want.

Remember, USB flash drives lifespan depends upon write/erase cycles. If you continue to use it, it will eventually wear out after crossing the write/erase cycles limit. Also, always properly connect and disconnect the USB drive to your computer to avoid bit decay.

Store your photos in local media


Storing photos on local media rather over a network reduces the risk of bit decay. This is because network folder is accessed by multiple users and every time the folder is opened or the photos are transferred, the chances of Bit Rot increases.

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