We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run your hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks higher failure rates than what would normally be expected.

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 ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers that's prone to failure but offers ...

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 when you start your Windows 11/10 PC and it displays the error message SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0, 2, etc., message and the computer won’t boot, then ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HDD crashes more than doubled in the last four years, prevailing as the most common cause of data loss according to customer data 1 provided by Kroll Ontrack, the leading ...

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 ...

It's a technical marvel that mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) don't give up the ghost way more often than they do. Some models are more prone to premature failure than others, of course, but overall ...

As of DSM 7.3, Synology no longer mandates validated drives in 2025 DiskStation Plus, Value, and J-series devices.

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 ...