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 ...

Upgrading your NAS drives may seem deceptively simple, but there's a lot to worry about behind the scenes. Here's why.

Hard drive failure is one of the most catastrophic events that can happen to your computer. Once dead, the files on your hard drive may be lost for good and recovery of data while your hard drive is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

QNAP and ULINK have this week introduced a new tool in the form of the DA Drive Analyzer, specifically created to provide an artificial intelligent powered drive failure protection tool for network ...