It’s only appropriate that I found a story idea on storage failure right as I experienced the worst hard drive failure of my life. Long story short, after two days of agony, I lost some downloaded ...

We can't trust any piece of technology to work perfectly forever. Hard drives are no exception, and when they fail, they take years of important files with them. Fortunately, several free tools can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discusses 2025 Annual Hard Drive Failure Rates and Data Trends February 18, 2026 1:00 PM ESTCompany ParticipantsStephanie ...

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 ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...

Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that’s netted the firm a ...

In its annual report, cloud provider Backblaze shows which hard drives are reliable, which show weaknesses, and how failure rates are developing.