Laptop owners who store years of photos, work files, and personal records on a single internal drive face a ticking clock ...

Have you ever plugged in your drive and found that it suddenly stopped working? If you’re looking for external hard drive ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Using mean time between failure as a way to measure disk drive reliability is misleading to end users who are being told their drives will last 1 million to 1.5 million hours, or 114 to 170 years. One ...

This AHCI Port0 Device Error does not usually occur due to the operating system failure; instead, it occurs when your computer detects an issue with your hard drive ...

How Google forced the hard drive industry to embrace failure ...