With so many uses for external hard disk drives (HDDs), including data storage, file sharing, and gaming, it's unsurprising that many of us rely on the devices in our day to day lives. This regular ...

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We can't trust any piece of technology to work perfectly forever. Hard drives are no exception, and when they fail, they take years of important files with them. Fortunately, several free tools can ...

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 ...

I've had 2 80 gig hard drives fail over the last 3 months. One was a western digital and one was a maxtor. Now when I access my slave drive (120 gig maxtor) It started making a quit grinding sound.

Despite being a geek since the age of 12 (though admittedly only having a PC with a hdd since about age 16 or so), it wasn't that long ago that I could count the number of failed hard drives I'd ...

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 recent report about hard-disk drive reliability suggests that not only do most HDDs die within three years, but those produced after 2014 can be less reliable, too. For many people, such news may ...