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 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 ...

Hard drives serve as the beating heart of electronic devices, faithfully storing and retrieving your precious information. As the primary storage unit within your computer, a hard drive harbors your ...

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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 ...

Over the past 30 years, companies have transferred important data to tape and hard drive backup, then stored them internally or externally for safekeeping with a service like Iron Mountain. Now, the ...

What really mess the numbers are the ones that are broken out of the box or will break after a month or two. I have multiple drives that are well over 10 years and I received some that weren't even ...

In storage circles, much discussion has arisen from the very interesting papers investigating disk drive reliability presented recently at FAST ’07. Other columnists and bloggers, such as Frank Hayes ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development in storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about how temperature affects hard disk drives (HDDs). Kaese says ...