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Hard drives used for archives are dying with no recovery option

Iron Mountain, a company that specializes in archiving the vaults of the media industry, said that 20 percent of the hard drives used to achieve music recordings from the 90s are dead and unreadable. During the said era, hard drives replaced spooled magnetic tapes in digital audio workstations as they are smaller, less prone to deterioration, and safer to fires. Related Pinoy Movie Sites: Watch Filipino-made films and TV shows online Best music streaming services in the Philippines What the industry didn’t realize is that standard hard drives were not designed for long-term use. As per the report, the magnetic disks and the hardware that reads them cannot be, in a majority of cases, decoupled. So if either of them fails, the whole storage device will be completely unusable. Many musicians and recording studios are recently trying to dig their archives, which contain separate tracks and samples, in an attempt to create a remastered version of a song. However, they are finding
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Xbox Game Pass gets a price hike, new Standard tier

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Major updates are coming to Xbox Game Pass subscription prices and tiers this 2024.

The company notified Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers that their monthly fee will cost USD19.99 starting September 12, 2024. That’s a USD3.00 price increase from the current USD16.99 monthly subscription fee.

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Meanwhile, the PC Game Pass subscription is also getting a price hike of USD11.99 starting September from the current price of USD9.99. This is terrible news even for subscribers in the Philippines as the current Php119/mo local price will increase to Php175/mo once the changes take effect.

Microsoft will also launch a new Xbox Game Pass Standard subscription tier. It will cost USD14.99 (~Php875) per month for the new users and won’t come with day-one titles. Existing users can still use their Xbox Game Pass for Console subscriptions.

The new Standard tier gains online console multiplayer, which the Xbox Game Pass for Console didn’t have.

Current subscribers of the Xbox Game Pass for Console can stack for up to 13 months from September 18, but it will not affect existing stacks.

This article, Xbox Game Pass gets a price hike, new Standard tier, was originally published at NoypiGeeks | Philippines Technology News, Reviews and How to's.


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