I honestly don't know why you're arguing so much on this. It's a cold hard fact that you are at less risk of losing a digital file that you have backed up than a physical copy that you only have a single version of.
thats my line. I honestly don't know why you're arguing so much on this. It's a cold hard fact that you are at less risk of losing a physical file than a digital copy no matter how many version of. dont ignored my point please just because it didnt align with you 'interest'. if it would made you feel better, i too backup tons of stuff digitally. but i never push aside alternative like physical completely and i believe it has better chances than digital. i keep both by the way.
also ignored all my point and keep repeation
one copy over and over again. i talk about game preserverance as whole. not on stage of an individual alone. before some masterpiece lost from humanity forever, in next few decade ahead.
I have a few NAS's each running RAID. I get warnings whenever there is a single fault detected on any of the 4 drives. I've had one of my NAS's for 7.5 years now, with the original disks all in them. Zero faults. Even if one of them just dropped dead with zero warning tomorrow, unless another one also drops dead with zero warning before I've got to replace that first drive and it rebuilds the volume, I've lost nothing. The chances of that happening are slim to none. That's the whole point.
are you sure the rest of the world gonna have same fault rate as you? the image i posted above covered this. how many times you gonna replace those drives over and over again? and you confident your drives never let you down in future? dont be too confident mate. it might bite your back.
sure, if you manage to keep properly by yourself then it is great. but like i said, preserverance as general, but not individual. there always a risk. never be
zero.
also i keep both.
You could accidentally step on a game case and snap your disc in half. Game gone. Destroyed. Your kids could decide to throw the discs around like frisbees, as kids tend to do. Game gone. Destroyed. Doesn't happen with digital.
none? are you sure? i you can said physical can has other risk than damage like get stolen, broken, etc same goes for your drives. how can it not applied? like i mention above. you get infected by malware, corrupt(you would keep said never happening, but it still could. therefore, risk still exist), data stolen, theft, sudden power outage that could damage the drives, your pc suddenly fall down and your drive affected etc and if anything else, everything could lose in one go. also write cycle has effect on drives health. i said this before. risk always present. never zero.
The part that is mind boggling about your post is this:
With digital copies you have a chance of your data surviving those events. With a single physical copy, what if there is a massive earthquake that destroys everything? Your single physical copy is gone! You have now lost that game completely. With digital + backups you at least have a chance of it not being lost.
i dont know how earthquake wont damaged your drives lmao. in the end your drives also 'physicaly' existed like others physical copies. anything can happend to physcial also applied to your drives. you can repeat
single physical copy over and over again. once massive scale earthquake happened, it would affect
everything no matter how many it is there. keep on cloud? pray cloud server is unaffected. there still risk, but never zero.
for example Amazon data center is affected by earthquake. hard drives, thousand of them and it just 5.8 magnitude:
Yesterday's earthquake slowed down Amazon AWS -- and every other hard drive on the east coast -- significantly.
www.extremetech.com
(he clearly pretend this never happened)
unless you have those data center level of dissaster protection, but still, like this example, risk is there.
I'm sorry but reading your posts shows you're arguing in bad faith. Having a single point of critical failure with no backups is always worse than having redundant backups. If you don't understand this, or simply want to ignore it because you hold a grudge against the idea of physical games, then we're done here
grudge? LOL. why would i keep grudge over storage type? from my perspective, you the one have grudge over physical media. it is funny you think physical is not a backup. in the end, even if people backup digitally, physical always there as alternative. i never refused digital completely. it just i believe physical has better chances. but you seems you only choose over one option completely and disregard everything despite, i believe i made pretty good sounded argument myself. but in the end, you just ignored my point, just because my view not aligned with yours.