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 ...

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 ...

In storage circles, much discussion has arisen from the very interesting papers investigating disk drive reliability presented recently at FAST ’07. Other columnists and bloggers, such as Frank Hayes ...

Disk failure prediction represents a critical research area in ensuring the reliability of modern data storage systems. As data centres become more complex and the volume of stored data increases ...

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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HDD crashes more than doubled in the last four years, prevailing as the most common cause of data loss according to customer data 1 provided by Kroll Ontrack, the leading ...

Failed hard disk drives ran for an average of 25,233 hours before their demise, which translates to a lifespan of two years and 10 months. That’s according to Secure Data Recovery, which has a ...

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I have a 1515+ (5 Bay) Synology NAS. With 2 volumes, a Raid 5, 3 disk, and a Raid 1, 2 Disk I updated the Raid 5 with larger 8 TB disks. All went well. Let it run for a few days, all good. Proceeded ...

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 ...

We encountered a peculiar issue where the Hard Drive disappeared in the File Explorer in Windows 11/10. Basically, the drive keeps disappearing from time to time without any apparent reason. We ...