The 180TB storage array, like many of our other hard drive-related stories, comes from our friends at Backblaze. Backblaze is a cloud-based backup company that provides unlimited storage for a fixed ...

Today I had a vendor tell me that I couldn't replace an 80 pin scsi drive in a raid array with a same capacity or larger drive with a different spindle speed.<BR><BR>I'm trying to figure out if this ...

The need to measure drive array cost-performance in terms of Input/Output Operations per second (IOPs) per Rack Unit or Megabytes per Rack Unit is forcing drive array vendors to allocate as many ...

If the inside of your Mac is no more mysterious to you than the inside of your sock drawer, an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of ...

Why doubling a hard drive's IOPS still can't beat cheap NVMe ...

Hello!<BR><BR>So over the weekend a drive failed on the backup SQL box. Didn't notice a thing (because it kept running just fine) until someone came in telling me of a weird beeping coming from the ...

The ATABeast/HA, unveiled Tuesday, uses ATA hard drives to keep costs down but comes with a full range of enterprise-class redundancy features to ensure high availability, said Diamond Lauffin, senior ...

The hard drive that I have been using since 2017 died on me around two years ago. It was past the 5-year mark, and had started showing signs that it was about to die, such as slow access speeds and ...

Though not as fast in our tests as Seagate’s IronWolf Pro, the SkyHawk is still a very fast hard drive, tuned for surveillance purposes. Seagate says it’s optimized for use in NVRs. The AI version is ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...