The hard drives that hold generations of albums from the music industry are increasingly becoming unreadable and potentially wiping out a portion of music history. Earlier this week, Mix published an ...

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly ...

This means that a drive switches heads more often than switches cylinders, when doing sequential reading and writing... Therefore if you lose a head, it will render the entire drive unreadable.... You ...