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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disk failure prediction represents a critical research area in ensuring the reliability of modern data storage systems. As data centres become more complex and the volume of stored data increases ...

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 ...

The error message Please back up your data and replace your hard disk drive indicates a failing hard drive. Therefore, you need to replace it. However, in some cases ...

New research from online backup company Backblaze suggests hard disks could be phased out sooner rather than later. Solid-state drives (SSDs) have largely replaced hard disks as the primary storage in ...

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 ...

If you run a hard drive diagnostics test on your Dell Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer and receive the Error code 2000-0142, then this post is intended to help you ...

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 ...