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 ...

Back in January, we wrote a story about which company makes the most reliable hard drives. At the time, Hitachi came out ahead of Western Digital and Seagate by a significant margin. Now, with new ...

SAS drives die just like any other too. <I>Every</I> hard drive is a failure that just hasn't happened yet - treat them that way. RAID is not a backup - it minimizes downtime in case of a drive ...

Backblaze has released its reliability report for Q1 2016 covering cumulative failure rates both by specific model numbers and by manufacturer. The company noted that as of this quarter, its 61,590 ...

Over 317,000 drives analyzed; four models recorded zero failures; high-capacity drives (20TB+) outperform average. Trusted by IT leaders and storage professionals since 2013, this latest installment ...

A question I get asked a lot is, "which is the best hard drive to buy?" It's a tough question to answer because, unless you have tens of thousands of drives spinning, you end up relying on what the ...

With storage prices climbing higher and higher due to AI-related shortages, is it a safe idea to purchase cheaper SSDs made ...

It's a technical marvel that mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) don't give up the ghost way more often than they do. Some models are more prone to premature failure than others, of course, but overall ...

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My mother's compaq 17x series laptop hard drive just took a crap after 2 years. Just out of warranty.<BR><BR>So she is shipping it to me to fix. What brand of hard drive to purchase? Reliability is ...