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 ...

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 ...

We recently covered a study by Secure Data Recovery, an HDD, SSD, and RAID data recovery company, of 2,007 defective hard disk drives it received. It found the average time before failure among those ...

Discusses 2025 Annual Hard Drive Failure Rates and Data Trends February 18, 2026 1:00 PM ESTCompany ParticipantsStephanie ...

Four models achieve zero failures across 328,000+ drives; new failure analysis on outliers prompts dive into failure definitions SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Backblaze, Inc. (BLZE), the ...

If you’ve ever had a hard disk drive (HDD) fail on you, you’re certainly not alone. It turns out that this is actually a lot more common than most people think. According to research carried out ...

I picked up a Synology NAS about two weeks ago (DS412+ model), and stuffed it with 4 of the WD RED drives, which are supposedly made for NAS boxes. I was sittin on my couch last night, when I started ...

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 ...