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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SSDs have usurped hard disk drives (HDDs) when it comes to performance, but whether building a network-attached storage (NAS) or having high-capacity needs on a budget, plenty of people still rely on ...

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 ...

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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 ...