HGST -- now a division of Western Digital -- continues to have the most reliable drives, with a cumulative AFR of just 0.47%. Toshiba comes in second at 0.98%. Seagate brings up the rear this quarter at 2.05% AFR. WDC (Western Digital) hard drives aren't in the listing. Backblaze d...
Seagate’s drives are improving, Western Digital’s are getting worse, and HGST’s are some of the most reliable drives out there. That’s according to service records compiled by Blackblaze, a cloud backup provider,Ars Technica is reporting. Blackblaze makes a habit of regularly sharing their...
Mass storage is dirt cheap Good news if your available storage space is filled to the brim: Traditional hard drives are still pretty cheap. A 1TB Western Digital Blue hard drive spinning at a speedy 7,200rpm will only set you back $40 onAmazon, while a 4TB WD Blue drive is just $88 ...
While SSDs offer the best upgrade to a computer money can buy, they don't come cheap -- but there are alternatives that provide the performance you want without breaking the bank.
I've maintained plenty of RAID arrays with 0 problems. I've seen plenty of single drives fail.Quite agree and it was for that very reason that I repeatedly stated the value of redundancy and suggest that a RAID 1 array would be more robust due to its built in redundancy. To...
(SSD) storage. SSDs are admittedly faster and more reliable because they have no moving parts, but the prices are higher and storage capacities are lower. That said, Backblaze just retired all 3TB and 4TB hard drives residing in its data centers (6,221 total) for models with 8TB, 10TB,...
Major HDD vendors Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital have all been exploring the MAMR technology along with HAMR. MAMR is regarded by vendors as more reliable than HAMR because it does not require the same heating process and use of lasers. MAMR drives function similarly to PMR tec...
FPGAs. They’re being fed thousands of hours of training video, and petabytes of data. These workloads depend on the high capacity capabilities of enterprise-class hard drives (HDDs) – which can already support20TB per drive– and high performance enterprise SSD flash devices, platforms or ...
Source corrections to a variety of data points – especially for internet users – may result in figures that look quite different to those we published last year. However, these new numbers rely on the most recent data, and are therefore the most representative and reliable figures. ...
So many buttons and gadgets though, I struggle to know what I can use when. Good thing Strike and Counter are so reliable. A slower gadget intro rate would be my main request. For their complicated controls, they still are masters at tutorialization. Nicely layered test rooms and optional ...