> I'd be furious if I paid for a service that promised to archive my data, and 10-15 years later told me 25% of it was unreadable. The article is very vague on

> I'd be furious if I paid for a service that promised to archive my data, and 10-15 years later told me 25% of it was unreadable. The article is very vague on this, but I thought this company was first doing something like a bank safety deposit box. Send us your media in whatever format and we will keep it secure in a climate controlled vault. They don't offer to archive your data, they offer to store your media. Now it seems they pivoted to archiving data. This is an ad for their existing media storage clients to buy their data archive service: > Iron Mountain would like to alert the music industry at large to the fact that, even though you may have followed recommended best practices at the time, those archived drives may now be no more easily playable than a 40-year-old reel of Ampex 456 tape.