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In context: Backblaze is a California-based company dealing with cloud storage and data backup services. Every year, the organization provides some interesting reliability data about the large fleet ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) are more reliable than hard disk drives (HDDs) – at least for certain use cases, according to cloud-storage firm Backblaze. But that might not actually make much of a ...

Cloud storage company Backblaze looks into the reliability of the hard drives in its servers on a regular basis, but its latest study also includes the failure rates on its solid state collection, too ...

Memory Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it's AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs Hardware PC gaming has a ...

As with most storage mediums, the life of a solid state drive (SSD) can be really long, disappointingly short, or somewhere in between. That's not exactly helpful info. So how reliable are SSDs really ...

I recently had two instances of near data loss – I could recover the files in the end, but it made me realize that I need to rethink my backup strategy. On my main work macbook (currently the 2-port ...

Longtime GBM forum member and community participant Gavin Miller has just sent this intriguing article from Computerworld who interviewed Joel Hagberg, Fujitsu’s Vice President of business development ...

Cloud backup firm Backblaze posted HDD failure stats for the first quarter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mechanical hard disk ...

Bottom line: In addition to the quarterly reports on HDD failure rates published by Backblaze, the cloud backup and storage company has now added SSD boot drives to its data starting with Q1 2021. As ...

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