The 'cold storage' myth: Why leaving an old hard drive in a drawer will eventually kill it ...
Some PC users are reporting that when they boot their Windows 11/10 device, they receive the error message 1720 SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure on a black ...
In brief: A research report on hard drive failure rates for 2022 confirms the age of a drive is a key indicator for foretelling possible failure. The report examined 230,921 HDDs, and only an 8TB ...
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 ...
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 ...
Your hard drive may not always perform well, and sudden disk errors or accidental deletion can cause you to lose data. But there’s no need to feel frustrated after losing essential data on a hard ...
You need to power up your 'cold' backups every 3 months—here is why ...