"Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB Hard Drives" http://www.seagate.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/Seagate-ships-worlds-first-8TB-hard-drives-pr-master/ Yes, seven platters. Reminds me of the old 12 inch winchester with the removable 10? platters. Wait, here is WD with a 10 TB drive! ...

"Should I use an external drive for backup?" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/external-drive-backup/ "If you’re already using Backblaze or another cloud backup solution, you’re well on your way to bulletproof data storage security. So why clutter up your desktop with an external hard disk...

"SSD 101: How to Upgrade Your Computer With an SSD" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-upgrade-guide/ I need to do this at the house pc. Now. Lynn

"Storage Pod 5.0 Hack: One Power Supply" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-5-0-hack/ Nice! A 180 TB server for under $10,000. Lynn

"Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/ Wow! Half of a Petabyte in a single box! Lynn

Hello. I seem to get very rare and random annoyances: Event Type: Error Event Source: viamraid Event Category: None Event ID: 9 Date: 6/30/2006 Time: 9:38:26 AM User: ...

"The Future of Cloud Storage" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-future-of-cloud-backup/ "With over 250 Petabytes of data under management, Backblaze has grown to be one of the largest Clouds around." Lynn

"The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/helium-filled-hard-drive-failure-rates/ "In November 2013, the first commercially available helium-filled hard drive was introduced by HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary. The 6 TB drive was not only unique in...

Hello, I downloaded Windows Vista beta 2 ISO (3 GB!) file from http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm overnight. I am trying to burn the image to DVD+RWs (Office Depot brand -- 4.7 GB) with CDBurnerXP Pro v3.0.116. I assume the HP DVD burner Writer 300c (USB; latest...

"The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead" http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead Why did Intel brick the 335? Lynn

"These Aren’t Your Ordinary Data Centers" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/these-arent-your-ordinary-data-centers/ Heh. I like the one in a church. Lynn

"Western Digital Changes Its Reported Drive Speeds to Reflect Reality" https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/317327-western-digital-changes-its-reported-drive-speeds-to-reflect-reality "Western Digital has made some changes to how it brands its WD Red Plus hard drive family after taking heat for...

"Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/western-digital-releases-new-18tb-20tb-eamr-drives/ "EAMR offers similar density gains to HAMR and MAMR, with less exotic tech." Wow, that reminds of the good old Prime mini days with the $250,000...

"What is HAMR and How Does It Enable the High-Capacity Needs of the Future?" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hamr-hard-drives/ "During Q4, Backblaze deployed 100 petabytes worth of Seagate hard drives to our data centers. The newly deployed Seagate 10 and 12 TB drives are doing well and will...

"What Rogue One Teaches About Data Backup" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/rogue-one-teaches-data-backup/ Lynn

"What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/ "What if a hard drive could tell you it was going to fail before it actually did? Is that possible? Each day Backblaze records the SMART stats that are reported by the...

http://www.zdnet.com/who-makes-the-best-disk-drives-7000025375/ from http://www.hardocp.com/news/2014/01/21/who_makes_best_hard_drives63/ -- Quote of the Week: "Ladies and gentlemen, hoboes and tramps... Crosseyed Mosquitoes and bow-legged ants... I've come to tell you the story..." --Bob...

"Yes, Backblaze Just Ordered 100 Petabytes of Hard Drives" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/400-petabytes-cloud-storage/ Now I know why the 8 TB and 10 TB drives are in short supply. Between Backblaze and the NSA, not many are left for us common folks. Lynn

My computer has been acting up lately and I have a strong feeling my 3 year old Maxtor 40GB is about to croak. So I did some Googling and visited a variety of Toronto-area computer store websites to see what's available. I'm also an avid reader of Maximum PC and have come to the conclusion that...

Ok, besides the really expensive stuff from digi, whos USB hubs are considered to be really reliable in terms of not crashing under load, 'playing well with others', etc, etc. thanks