Hardware durability metrics are drawn from the cloud storage provider’s portfolio of more than 230,000 hard drives under management. Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze released its latest ...

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 ...

QNAP Systems, in partnership with ULINK Technology, has introduced an innovative tool that promises to transform the way businesses monitor and maintain their data storage drives. The DA Drive ...

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 ...

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 ...

USB flash drives are a cheap and convenient storage medium, but for a variety of reasons, are far from ideal for storing ...

In the last year, I've purchased 8 of the Western Digital 2TB Green drives (WD20EARS) through Newegg. Of those 8 drives, 3 had hardware failures either at initial powerup or within a day or two... the ...

SSDs have usurped hard disk drives (HDDs) when it comes to performance, but whether building a network-attached storage (NAS) or having high-capacity needs on a budget, plenty of people still rely on ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...

QNAP and ULINK have this week introduced a new tool in the form of the DA Drive Analyzer, specifically created to provide an artificial intelligent powered drive failure protection tool for network ...