You might think that hard drives have a shelf life—and that’s partially the case. However, an old hard drive probably has a ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

There’s no official expiration date stamped onto a hard drive, but most consumer HDDs are designed with a much shorter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nothing beats the convenience of a good old hard drive. However, when buying a hard drive, you'll need to consider several things like storage capacity, compatibility, type (HDD or SSD), connectivity ...