A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB
Large cloud storage operators track their hard drives every day, recording which units keep running and which ones drop off the racks. Backblaze does this at scale, and its Q1 …
What the latest data reveals about hard drive reliability
What really counts as a hard drive failure? That’s the question at the center of Backblaze’s Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives …
How 300,000+ hard drives performed in the real world
Cloud storage company Backblaze has released its Q1 2025 hard drive reliability report, which provides insights into the performance and failure rates of various HDD models …
Worldwide HDD and SSD market growth shows strong demand for data storage
IDC recently published new forecasts for the worldwide hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) market. While both markets were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the …
Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System: Manage enterprise, cloud, and edge data growth
Today at CES 2020, Seagate introduced a modular storage solution to manage the surge of enterprise, cloud, and edge data. The Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System is a portfolio …
Inadequate data sanitization puts enterprises at risk of breaches and compliance failures
Global enterprises’ overconfidence and inadequate data sanitization are exposing organizations to the risk of data breach, at a time when proper data management should be at …
Attacking hard disk drives using ultrasonic sounds
Another group of researchers has demonstrated that hard disk drives (HDDs) can be interfered with through sound waves, but they’ve also shown that ultrasonic signals …
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