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 ...

Discusses 2025 Annual Hard Drive Failure Rates and Data Trends February 18, 2026 1:00 PM ESTCompany ParticipantsStephanie ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) is essentially a system full of storage drives. This could be a formation of solid-state drives (SSD) or mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). Regardless of which type 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 ...

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 ...

Someone I know has been asked to teach a data forensics class, and he's recruited me to help him find open source tools and the like (in addition to some professional tools the school has licenses for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...