Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime Backblaze has issued the latest report detailing failure rates for the multitude of drives that power its storage ...

If you're prepared for a hard drive failure, you can keep your data safe.

Drive in Reverse Fail A car driver was reversing in the street while parking and hit the vehicle behind it straight on, leading to a crowd forming to ensure their safety.

That’s why we like the “rapid power cycling” method of triggering the drive’s self-destruct sequence; it could easily be disguised as shaking hands in a stressful situation.

This post shows how to easily check the SMART Failure Predict Status of drives using WMIC & Performance Monitor in Windows 11/10.

Scientists have "boldly gone" where no one has gone before, discovering what would happen if a faster-than-light warp drive like the one used in Star Trek were to fail.

The latest reliability stats from cloud storage provider Backblaze show a rise in hard drive failure rates.

If that were the case, you'd see the lower-capacity drives begin to fail at a higher rate than higher-capacity drives since a drive with more NAND has a higher write tolerance.

Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze released its latest annual report dissecting hard-drive failure rates, and it’s clear that age is a key determinant of a drive’s potential for failure.

A quick peek at the most recent report from cloud storage provider Backblaze concludes that larger drives---12TB, 14TB, and 16TB---fail less frequently than smaller capacity versions. During ...

Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company, has published its annual report on hard drive failures for 2022. The report provides information on the reliability of hard drives, which are ...