"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/ "In 2020, Backblaze added 39,792 hard drives and as of December 31, 2020 we had 165,530 drives under management. Of that number, there were 3,000 boot drives and 162,530 data drives. We...

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/ "At the end of Q1 2020, Backblaze was using 129,959 hard drives to store customer data. For our evaluation we remove from consideration those drives that were used for testing purposes and...

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/ "As of June 30, 2019, Backblaze had 110,640 spinning hard drives in our ever-expanding cloud storage ecosystem. Of that number, there were 1,980 boot drives and 108,660 data drives. This review...

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/ "As of September 30, 2019, Backblaze had 115,151 spinning hard drives spread across four data centers on two continents. Of that number, there were 2,098 boot drives and 113,053 data...

"Backblaze’s Custom Data Center PDU" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblazes-custom-data-center-pdu/ Neat ! Lynn

"Backing Up for Small Business" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backing-up-for-small-business/ "Here’s another sobering statistic: Lots of businesses never backup their data. One-third, according to one recent survey. Talk about flying without a net! What’s worse, almost half of all...

22-9-2014 I started a thead "Subject: how can BIOS boot priority settings change all by itself??" Today customer had bootproblems again. Message: diskdrive failed. Couldn't believe that because I had fitted a new drive. I booted into the BIOS setup and was baffled when I saw the detected...

My system is starting to make this "chirping" sound every 5-10 seconds. I haven't confirmed it yet, but I'm assuming that one of my four drives is the source of this noise. Aside from bearing noise, what are other possible sources of this noise? These drives are all SCSI U160 or 320. More...

I just replaced my notebook HDD (Fujitsu - MHK2120AT) with a new HDD (Seagate - ST96023A). But now, I am hearing a slight "clink" sound on shutdown. Is this normal?

"Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/consumer-grade-ssds-actually-last-a-hell-of-a-long-time/ I've got four of the Intel 5xx series here in the office with no failures. Three of them are over a year old. Lynn

Anything credible in the 100-120Gb range?? thanks

I am trying to install Windows 98 as a way to then upgrade it to XP on a box and it goes fine through the first installation phase, but then I am getting: ~ "Disk I/O Error" "Replace the disk, and then press any key" ~ Someone recommended to me to use knoppix (knoppix.net) in order to: ~ check...

"Don’t Trust the Cloud Alone: Think 3-2-1" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/dont-trust-itunes-match-alone/ Lynn

"Drive Stats Update" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/drive-stats-update/ "What we’re seeing in our fleet right now is a higher-than-typical failure rate among some of our 12TB Seagate drives." Uh-oh. Lynn

"Exabyte Unlocked" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/exabyte-unlocked/ "We’ve reached 1." "Or, by another measurement, we’ve reached 1,000,000,000,000,000,000." "Yes, today, we’re announcing that we are storing 1 exabyte of customer data."

Hi. Is this error something to worry about quickly (will have to buy a new HDD if it is urgent. but they are expensive due to Thailand's flood :()? Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:58:13 -0700 From: root To: root Subject: SMART error (Usage) detected on host: FooBar

"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives" https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-class-action-lawsuit-smr-hard-drive "Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western Digital (WD) for...

"First light-based memory chip puts SSDs on notice" http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/28/first-nano-photonic-memory-chip/ Start the 20 year clock! Lynn

"Hard Disk Drive (HDD) vs Solid State Drive (SSD): What’s the Diff?" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hdd-versus-ssd-whats-the-diff/ "If you’re still using a computer with a SATA hard drive, you can see a huge performance increase by switching to an SSD. What’s more, the cost of SSDs has...

"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ "For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. For the past 35+ years or so, hard drives prices have dropped, from around $500,000 per gigabyte in 1981 to less than $0.03 per gigabyte...