The music industry's latest problem

[IamNoone]

The music industry's latest problem: Archive hard drives from the 90s are failing​

The music industry is grappling with a looming crisis regarding its archive of 90s recordings stored on aging hard drives. According to data storage experts at Iron Mountain, around 20 percent of drives from the era are now unreadable. The company is raising concerns that, due to deteriorating formats, insufficient metadata, and increasing disk failures, a significant portion of these historic recordings could be lost forever if urgent action is not taken.

 

[Lupus]

So tape? Plus redundancy? Why store it on hdds and only one copy?

 

[IamNoone]

So tape? Plus redundancy? Why store it on hdds and only one copy?

Because people think that things last forever.

I made a mistake of formatting the wrong drive and destroyed many years worth of almost irreplaceable collected videos and live performances. Using recovery software I managed to salvage some, others was corrupted. By the grace of the universe I managed to get some of the live shows on obscure torrent sites.

Anyway, I digress. Important things like music should be stored on multiple drives in case shift happens. I learned that the hard way and now there is a drive exclusive for the hard to find content, and that which will be hard to find in the near future. And no, youtube does not have everything.