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

[Admin]

Iron Mountain says that one-fifth of the storage media it receives from the music industry are bricked.

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

 

[Gururu]

AI can recreate the original works no problem.

 

[dimar]

They couldn't archive the data to m-disc Blu-ray??

 

[jp7189]

AI can recreate the original works no problem.

While I think your comment was meant to be snarky, it is true that AI is fantastic at filling it missing gaps. If these drives had media errors it is likely AI could help. Not so much for a completely lost drive.

 

[USAFRet]

They couldn't archive the data to m-disc Blu-ray??

That did not exist 25 years ago.

 

[OneMoreUser]

They couldn't archive the data to m-disc Blu-ray??

That would take them using time machines to transport those Blu-ray discs and hardware needed 20 years back in time, that is expensive so not a viable suggestion. Wanna try again?

Articles like this should be a wake up call to all people with digital data stored, there is bound to tons of family memories hidden away on digital storage. And it is not like the drives or other media used is only a potential issue if they are 20 years old, so really everybody needs to make sure having multiple backups including having off-site ones. On the plus side even cheap thumb drives can holds lots of data these days, and they are very compact also which makes it easier to store - so having a extra backup with a friend or family member is not a big hassle.

 

[DiamondFlyer]

Absolutely shocking that no one thought in those 30 years about copying those old hard disks to new hard discs. Storage became dirt-cheap: you could literally copy 200 of your 1996 average 3Gb disk to a single 750Gb drive in 2006!!!
If we can do this at home with our family photos and movies collection, why are majors not capable to do that with their precious art???

 

[Heiro78]

I just recently got a bluray burner to transfer some old data from CDs and DVDs. Crazy how it will all fit onto a single 25GB bluray. I remember back in the day getting dual layer DVDs to maximize storage.

 

[DS426]

Any data that matters at all should be backed up and ideally using that 3-2-1 strategy at a minimum. This and testing the ability to restore backups should not only be firmly executed by any legitimate IT professional but made to be general knowledge to everyone. This seems obvious but it has slipped even some large organizations at times, at least in some ways. at times .

There probably weren't strong PSA's broadcasted to the music industry, so some very much slipped thru the cracks.

 

[rgd1101]

just a few days ago. there another member want to get data from cassette tape from the 80s with unknown system.
more than just storage, need the system and possible software to open the data.

 

[JeffreyP55]

Iron Mountain says that one-fifth of the storage media it receives from the music industry are bricked.

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

I have three WD 2TB black 3.5 drives I now use for storage only. Two are more than 10 years old.