If you’re a fan of 90s rock and grew up during that era, this news will alarm you, as all the best music from that decade may be lost forever due to hard drives.
That’s because about a fifth of the hard drives the company receives from the media industry for servicing have completely failed, enterprise information management company Iron Mountain said.
This means that the information contained on these discs, including studio masters, live sessions and everything else, could be lost forever unless the record company backs up the missing data to another disc or media.
“It’s really sad to see a project arrive at the studio: the hard drive is still in a new box with the packaging and labels from where they bought it,” Robert Kozela, global director of strategic initiatives and development for Iron Mountain Media & Archival Services, told the mix. “There’s a box of fuses sitting next to it. Everything is fine. And they’re both bricks.
The transition from tape to hard drives began in earnest in the 2000s with the advent of 5.1 Surround Sound and Guitar Hero. These technologies required record companies to remaster their tracks, and they found that some of the tapes they used to store the original recordings were starting to deteriorate, and some were no longer playable.
Like tapes, hard drives also wear out, and most commercial drives only last three to five years, even if you store them in the best possible conditions.
Therefore, the possibility of storage on other, more reliable surfaces prompted researchers over time to consider glass, for example, as a more stable component.
Source: Digital Trends
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