About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media industry for service are completely dead, said enterprise information management company Iron Mountain, which specializes in records management, information destruction, data backup, and data recovery. This means information contained within those drives — including studio masters, live sessions, and everything in between — could be lost forever unless the recording label has backed up the missing data in another storage drive or medium.
“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. “Next to it is a case with the safety drive in it. Everything’s in order. And both of them are bricks.”
