Backblaze has released its quarterly details on hard drive reliability, including new information on its initial deployment of 8TB hard drives. While SSDs have made marked inroads into the hard 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 ...

This is exactly what backup specialists Backblaze have been doing for the past number of years and generating regular reports. This offers an interesting insight into drive reliability. Over 2021, ...

For years, the online backup service Backblaze has been publishing its hard drive failure statistics, and the company has now released the numbers for 2019. With nearly 125,000 spinning hard drives in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What if the hard drive you’ve been relying on for years suddenly became incompatible with your Synology system, or, conversely, what if a long-awaited update finally allowed you to use drives from ...