Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks can be expected to fail each year. But data collected from 100,000 installed disks says otherwise. Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks ...

Customers are replacing disk drives at rates far higher than those suggested by the estimated mean time to failure (MTTF) supplied by drive vendors, according to a study of about 100,000 drives ...

Disk failure prediction represents a critical research area in ensuring the reliability of modern data storage systems. As data centres become more complex and the volume of stored data increases ...

Windows 11 January 2026 updates may cause boot failures on some PCs. Microsoft is investigating issues linked to KB5074109.

I had an interesting discussion recently with DriveSavers, one of the leading hard disk recovery firms in North America. We talk a lot about messaging, collaboration and unified messaging systems ...

How can a maker of RAID chipsets/drivers/software NOT provide a way of emailing an admin of a disk failure? Well, Intel found a way. Despite fancy software, systray notifications and graphics, they ...