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, ...

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 ...

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Your hard drive is silently monitoring its own health.

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 ...

When is the last time you personally experienced a hard drive failure? A few years ago, thieves broke into our RV and stole the laptops, hard drives, and basically anything not nailed down. At 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 ...

New data from backup company Backblaze illustrates which drives are more and less reliable than others, but ongoing issues with the data collection limit how much people should conclude from this.

My parents have a 4? year-old Maxtor hard drive hooked up to the main IDE controller on an Asus A7V. This morning, after the BIOS detected the hard drive and 2 opticals, it said "Primary hard disk ...