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 ...

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 ...

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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So my media drive and its redundant pair failed together - joy of joys for the holidays . But a gift to reconsider the system and buy new drives? The system: two powered hard drives. I kept one (HD1) ...

Hi I guess I was one of the lucky ones and havn't ever had a hard drive fail on me before... Untill now :-(<BR><BR>I have a Western Digital WD400(still under warranty) that started to make clicking ...

A recent report about hard-disk drive reliability suggests that not only do most HDDs die within three years, but those produced after 2014 can be less reliable, too. For many people, such news may ...

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 ...

Seagate announced two new plans Monday to give consumers peace of mind when it comes to their hard drives: Seagate Rescue and Seagate Rescue and Replace. Traditionally, data recovery in the event of a ...