Hard drives can last anywhere from four years to forever. Well, not forever, but for a long enough time, depending on how you use the drive. And when they do fail, they rarely do so without warning, ...

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 ...

A redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks (RAID) is a collection of physical drives pooled together using virtualization technology to create one or more logical units for the purpose of ...

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 ...

Hardware durability metrics are drawn from the cloud storage provider’s portfolio of more than 230,000 hard drives under management. Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze released its latest ...

Seagate announced two new plans Monday to give consumers peace of mind when it comes to their hard drives: Seagate Rescue and Seagate Rescue and Replace. Traditionally, data recovery in the event of a ...

In the last year, I've purchased 8 of the Western Digital 2TB Green drives (WD20EARS) through Newegg. Of those 8 drives, 3 had hardware failures either at initial powerup or within a day or two... 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 ...

Hard drive failure rates in the company's storage pods have remained low for 2021, a good sign for data hoarders. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...