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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To improve system security your M1 Mac won't boot if the internal solid state drive (SSD) completely dies. While there's been very little information released by Apple on their SSD architecture -- I'm ...

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 ...