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 ...

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 ...

I am disappointed (and hope someone can correct me) to find that the RAID management app that comes with the nForce4 NVRAID chipset doesn't have a way of notifying me via email that one of the disks ...

In case you are experiencing hard disk logic errors in your Windows PC and need hard disk repair software, this page shows six disk repair solutions to save you from data loss, including free hard ...