or mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). Regardless of which type of storage you use, you're guaranteed to encounter a drive failure somewhere in the future. While NAS-rated storage is designed to ...

Hard drives are more prone to failures than other ... and recovery from a disk failure is very rapid. Disk write operations are less efficient and Mirrored volumes are the least efficient in ...

In spring 2000, IBM expanded its DTLA hard disk series with two model series, the Deskstar 40GV and 75GXP. For the first time ...

If hard disk contains bad sectors ... When S.M.A.R.T. data indicates a possible imminent drive failure, software running on the host system may notify the user so preventive action can be taken ...

Also called a "virtual disk," "virtual hard drive" or "emulated disk" (e-disk ... write changes to storage in case of hardware failure (see in-memory database). RAM disks, or RAM drives if ...

Any deviation in these factors could be an early warning sign of impending drive failure! Hard Disk Sentinel also works on hard disks that are being used in external USB or e-SATA enclosures and RAID ...

One fun aspect of 1970s-era hard disk drives is that they are big, clunky and are fairly easy to repair without the need for a clean room. A less fun aspect is that they are 1970s-era HDDs and ...