All storage fails. The only question is when. For critical data: LOCKSS. Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. I've relied on daily bootable backups to keep my business running for over 15 years. But the ...

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 ...

We can't trust any piece of technology to work perfectly forever. Hard drives are no exception, and when they fail, they take years of important files with them. Fortunately, several free tools can ...

Seagate announced two new plans Monday to give consumers peace of mind when it comes to their hard drives: Seagate Rescue and Seagate Rescue and Replace. Traditionally, data recovery in the event of a ...

Just the other day out of the blue windows no longer recognizes one of my storage drives. The windows diskmanager is reporting it as a different model number (ST_M13FQBL) and says it's 3.86gb (it's a ...

I've recently read quite a bit on RAID, but there is one thing I can't quite understand. Is RAID-0 really that much more likely to fail? I can't see how it'd be more likely for a RAID-0 to fail than a ...