Data Storage & Documents
Records Filing Dry Cabinet
Whether it’s governmental archives such as:
- Annual reports
- Hearing transcripts
- Meeting minutes
- Photographs
Or corporate enterprise archives, maintaining historic documents and records related to company history and administration such as:
- Employee records
- Business transactions
- Contracts
All of the above records must be archived. Records maintained/housed in complex large-scale environments can present moisture damage, water logging, and environmental control problems. Eureka’s products can effectively solve all moisture problems.
On the other hand, high humidity will also increase tape pack stresses as the tape absorbs moisture from the air and expands, causing distortion of the tape backing and an increase in permanent dropouts.
Fungal growth is another problem that occurs in high humidity as molds can live off the binder polymer and added components and cause a binder breakdown. Hairy growths at the edges of the tape are another sign of mold and these spores can get onto the tape surface and cause many dropouts.
For important archival records stored in LTO tapes, the recommended humidity for medium to long term storage is 20% ~ 50%. Proper storage of videotapes protects the tape from organic mold growth and other damage that adds noise to the images reducing the quality of the recorded material.
