Online backup service Backblaze frequently provides interesting storage analysis based on hard drive statistics gathered from its data center. We’ve seen Backblaze figure out the most reliable hard ...

SMART, which first started to appear in consumer hard drives about 10 years ago, is a brilliant concept -- it's meant to tell you if a hard drive is about to die -- but in practice, I think we can all ...

Hard drive software that IT administrators use to monitor drive health is highly inconsistent from drive to drive and manufacturer to manufacturer, according to data collected from nearly 40,000 ...