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 ...

Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that’s netted the firm a ...

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.

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 for business development in storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about how temperature affects hard disk drives (HDDs). Kaese says ...

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 ...