20% of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed(tomshardware.com)
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20% of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/twenty-percent-of-hard-drives-used-for-long-term-music-storage-in-the-90s-have-failed
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> could be lost forever unless the recording label has backed up the missing data in another storage drive or medium
I think anyone here understands that you should not store valuable data exclusively on a single hard drive then throw it in storage for 20+ years.
Another plug, as always, to the 3-2-1 backup guidance: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
I think anyone here understands that you should not store valuable data exclusively on a single hard drive then throw it in storage for 20+ years.
Another plug, as always, to the 3-2-1 backup guidance: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
This is a non-article.
It's Tom's Hardware linking to a 3rd party article which is a hidden ad for Iron Mountain enterprise services, except they manage to somehow have even less information than an ad article, despite being a "tech" news source.
It's Tom's Hardware linking to a 3rd party article which is a hidden ad for Iron Mountain enterprise services, except they manage to somehow have even less information than an ad article, despite being a "tech" news source.
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>About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media industry for service are completely dead, said [...] Iron Mountain, which specializes in [...] data recovery.
This isn't a music industry source saying 20% of their archive drives are dead. This is a data recovery company stating that 20% of the drives _it receives from the music industry_ are unrecoverable.
I'm making up numbers here but say the music industry has trouble with 5% of their drives, so they send them to Iron Mountain to be recovered, and then 20% _of those_ are dead. That's a lot fewer drives than the title implies.
>However, just like tape, hard drives also deteriorate — with most commercial drives rated to last for only three to five years.
It sounds like the author is referencing lifetime run hours. A drive spinning in a PC or server for 5 years, sure. A drive sitting offline in a controlled storage room for 5 years, shouldn't just stop working.