Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today released its Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, analyzing the performance and reliability of 328,348 hard ...

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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 ...

Hard drive failure rates in the company's storage pods have remained low for 2021, a good sign for data hoarders. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) is essentially a system full of storage drives. This could be a formation of solid-state drives (SSD) or mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). Regardless of which type of ...

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 ...

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 ...