You can't prevent hard drive failure, but you can be prepared for it ...

I had an interesting discussion recently with DriveSavers, one of the leading hard disk recovery firms in North America. We talk a lot about messaging, collaboration and unified messaging systems ...

There is a widely held belief that hard disks which are subject to heavy use are more likely to fail than those used intermittently. It was also thought that hard drives preferred cool temperatures to ...

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 ...

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 for business development in storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about how temperature affects hard disk drives (HDDs). Kaese says ...

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In storage circles, much discussion has arisen from the very interesting papers investigating disk drive reliability presented recently at FAST ’07. Other columnists and bloggers, such as Frank Hayes ...

Everybody says you need RAID 0 for speed. You don't.