20% of HDDs Used for Long-Term Music Storage in the 90s Failed

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Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed

About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media industry for service are completely dead, said enterprise information management company Iron Mountain, which specializes in records management, information destruction, data backup, and data recovery. This means information contained within those drives – including studio masters, live sessions, and everything in between – could be lost forever unless the recording label has backed up the missing data in another storage drive or medium.