It’s only appropriate that I found a story idea on storage failure right as I experienced the worst hard drive failure of my life. Long story short, after two days of agony, I lost some downloaded ...

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The latest quarterly report from Backblaze on hard drive reliability reveals a rise in failures among certain drives. Backblaze is a pure storage provider; cloud storage is all they do, and they dig ...

We can't trust any piece of technology to work perfectly forever. Hard drives are no exception, and when they fail, they take years of important files with them. Fortunately, several free tools can ...

The amount of data we can store on computers has been increasing ever since, well, computers were invented. However, there comes a point where you can have too much information, and a PC can't ...

Statistics on hard drive reliability just released by data-storage company Backblaze would seem to indicate it’s not a good idea to buy a Seagate hard drive. Of the 104,954 drives it uses, Seagate’s ...

The annual Backblaze hard drive reliability report 2023 has been released and it has revealed that one model of 8TB Seagate hard drive has yet to have a single drive fail in the 18 months since the ...

Four models achieve zero failures across 328,000+ drives; new failure analysis on outliers prompts dive into failure definitions SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Backblaze, Inc. (BLZE), the ...

Bear with me, I don't have all the data or the drive directly in front of me. My parents had a desktop HDD (either WD or Seagate) that was in an Orico drive enclosure. They were leaving the drive ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...