Of the thousands and thousands of archived hard disk drives from the 1990s that clients ask the company to work on, around one-fifth are unreadable.

Source: https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives

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Inside Iron Mountain: It’s Time to Talk About Hard Drives

By Steve Harvey. Iron Mountain sounds the alarm: Aging tracks created through an all-digital workflow aren't guaranteed to play back.

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