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03-13-2003, 10:36 PM
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Possibly a stupid question about copying files over and over.
Ok, if I keep copying a file over and over and over again from one hard drive to another will it in any way lose anything or "degrade" or will it always be the same file?
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03-13-2003, 10:38 PM
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No, because it is digital media. Only analog media degrades and loses quality after being copied from a copy from a copy from a... You get the idea.
[edit]: analog media being casettes and VHS tapes, for example.
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03-16-2003, 04:26 PM
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forceflow, maybe you can tell me this, is it normal for the media in my mp3 player to lose consitency over time, they media are two flash memory cards (Multi media cards to be exact) ?
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03-16-2003, 09:20 PM
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It could be possible to introduce corruption each time though?
I guess that most systems will verify the copy, either byte by byte, or by using some kind of hash total like MD5 Sums. Interesting possibility I suppose.... David. |
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