I'd like to see more data on this because a few things don't add up to what the title is claiming. >About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media

I'd like to see more data on this because a few things don't add up to what the title is claiming. >About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media industry for service are completely dead, said [...] Iron Mountain, which specializes in [...] data recovery. This isn't a music industry source saying 20% of their archive drives are dead. This is a data recovery company stating that 20% of the drives _it receives from the music industry_ are unrecoverable. I'm making up numbers here but say the music industry has trouble with 5% of their drives, so they send them to Iron Mountain to be recovered, and then 20% _of those_ are dead. That's a lot fewer drives than the title implies. >However, just like tape, hard drives also deteriorate — with most commercial drives rated to last for only three to five years. It sounds like the author is referencing lifetime run hours. A drive spinning in a PC or server for 5 years, sure. A drive sitting offline in a controlled storage room for 5 years, shouldn't just stop working.