In fact, a related thread happened maybe a week ago.<BR><BR> Capacity vs. reliability <BR><BR>mckennma, do you have evidence that IDE drives have poorer manufacturing standards? There are too many ...

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

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 ...

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's new Savvio 10K.4 hard drives are available in 600GB and 450GB capacity points, which is twice the capacity of Seagate's previous 10,000-rpm hard drives. It is also twice the capacity of ...

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 ...

The annual Backblaze hard drive reliability report 2023 has been released and it has revealed that one model of 8TB Seagate hard drive has yet to have a single drive fail in the 18 months since the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

It's probably difficult to imagine a time when data storage wasn't simple, seamless and instantly available in the palm of your hand. With smartphones, cloud services, sleek portable devices and ...

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