A year ago we got some insight into hard disk reliability when cloud backup provider Backblaze published its findings for the tens of thousands of disks that it operated. Backblaze uses regular ...

The storage industry isn’t necessarily known for being a fast mover. Take for example this memo, dated October 2003 (it’s in Microsoft Word format), in which Seagate made clear the need to move the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Disk reliability has long been an issue for broadcasters. When disk failures occur in play-to-air ...

The statistics of mean time between failures (MTBF) and average failure rate (AFR) have gotten lots of attention lately in the storage world, especially with the release of three much-discussed ...

Backblaze, the low cost cloud backup and storage provider, has published its drive reliability numbers for the final quarter, and full year, of 2016. The company uses self-built pods of 45 or 60 disks ...