"Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-2015/ "By the end of 2015, the Backblaze datacenter had 56,224 spinning hard drives containing customer data. These hard drives reside in 1,249 Backblaze Storage Pods. By comparison 2015 began...

"Hard Drive Stats for 2019" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2019/ "As of December 31, 2019, Backblaze had 124,956 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 2,229 boot drives and 122,658 data drives. This review looks at the hard drive failure rates for the data...

"Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2017" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/ I am going to stay with WD drives, the Seagates look scary. But the new HGST drives look interesting. Lynn

"Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q2-2016/ "Q2 2016 saw Backblaze: introduce 8TB drives into our drive mix, kickoff a pod-to-vault migration of over 6.5 Petabytes of data, cross over 250 Petabytes of data stored, and deploy another 7,290...

"Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-stats-q2-2017/ "Since our last report for Q1 2017, we have added 635 additional hard drives to bring us to the 83,151 drives we’ll focus on. In Q1 we added over 10,000 new drives to the mix, so adding just 635...

"Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/ "As of June 30, 2018 we had 100,254 spinning hard drives in Backblaze’s data centers. Of that number, there were 1,989 boot drives and 98,265 data drives. This review looks at the quarterly and...

"Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2016: Less is More" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2016/ "In our last report for Q2 2016, we counted 68,813 spinning hard drives in operation. For Q3 2016 we have 67,642 drives, or 1,171 fewer hard drives. Stop, put down that Twitter...

"Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2018: Less is More" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failire-rates/ "As of September 30, 2018 Backblaze had 99,636 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,866 boot drives and 97,770 data drives. This review looks at the quarterly and...

"HDD vs SSD: What Does the Future for Storage Hold? — Part 2" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hdd-vs-ssd-in-data-centers/ "Western Digital claims that its competing microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) could enable drive capacity to increase up to 40TB by the year 2025." Lynn

"HDD vs SSD: What Does the Future for Storage Hold?" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-vs-hdd-future-of-storage/ Pretty much what I thought. Lynn

"Holographic data storage could cram 1,000 DVDs onto a 4-in square film" https://newatlas.com/holographic-data-storage-film/54117/ So, 8.5 TB on a holographic device ? I think that I have heard this song before. Lynn

"How Reliable are SSDs?" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-reliable-are-ssds/ "What’s not to love about solid state drives (SSDs)? They are faster than conventional hard disk drives (HDDs), more compact, have no moving parts, are immune to magnetic fields, and can withstand more shocks...

"How to beat ransomwa prevent, don't react" https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2016/03/how-to-beat-ransomware-prevent-dont-react/ Lynn

"IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/ibm-and-sony-cram-up-to-330tb-into-tiny-tape-cartridge/ "Sputtered magnetic layer, lubricant, and new heads enable massive 200Gb/inch density." I have bought my last tape...

"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented" http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/ibm-wants-to-kill-the-hard-drive/ Lynn

"Intel and Micron are going to kill the hard disk drive" http://www.itworld.com/article/2851057/intel-and-micron-are-going-to-kill-the-hard-disk-drive.html "That seems to be ending. Not long after Samsung announced a 3.2TB SSD drive, Intel announced its alliance with Micron Technology will...

"Intel's first 'ruler' SSD holds 32TB" https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/10/intels-first-ruler-ssd-holds-32tb/ Good night ! I note that the cost is not stated. Lynn

"Introducing Catblaze Cloud Backup" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/catblaze-backup/ Lynn

Hello together, since a few weeks I use the 300GB Maxtor Shared Storage as an external Backup Drive. It works pretty well, except a problem which I have with the "Last Modified" and "Last Accessed" File Dates. Lets assume a file which is stored on the local hard drive is Created : 3-oct-05 Last...

Hello together, since a few weeks I use the 300GB Maxtor Share Storage as an external Backup Drive. It works pretty well, except a problem which I have with the "Last Modified" and "Last Accessed" File Dates. Lets assume a file which is stored on the local hard drive is Created : 3-oct-05 Last...