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Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed | Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.
Hard drives from the last 20 years are now slowly dying.
“It’s so sad to see a project come into the studio, a hard drive in a brand-new case with the wrapper and the tags from wherever they bought it still in there,” Robert Koszela, the Global Director for Strategic Initiatives & Growth for Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services, told Mix. The migration to hard drives from tape storage began in earnest in the 2000s with the arrival of 5.1 Surround Sound and Guitar Hero. These technologies required labels to remaster their tracks, and they discovered that some of the tape they used to store the original recordings had started to deteriorate, with some already unplayable.
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