Hard drives can last anywhere from four years to forever. Well, not forever, but for a long enough time, depending on how you use the drive. And when they do fail, they rarely do so without warning, ...

Your hard drive is silently monitoring its own health.

Almost a year ago, we covered Backblaze's decision to phase out Seagate 3TB drives after seeing unacceptably high failure rates from one drive in particular, the ST3000DM001. Now, Seagate is facing a ...

With so many uses for external hard disk drives (HDDs), including data storage, file sharing, and gaming, it's unsurprising that many of us rely on the devices in our day to day lives. This regular ...

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Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Drive Stats. Today, it's our special edition once a year where we get to talk about the full year of 2025. So as a reminder, I'm Stephanie Doyle. I'm a technical ...

New data from backup company Backblaze illustrates which drives are more and less reliable than others, but ongoing issues with the data collection limit how much people should conclude from this.