Looking to buy a hard drive, take a look at the following article on hard drive reliability by Backblaze. Summary: Looks like HGST has the lowest failure rate In 2015 we ran 56,224 hard drives in our datacenter. In this post we review the reliability of the Seagate, HGST, Toshiba, and Western Digital drives. Source:… Continue reading Hard Drive Reliability – 2015 Update
Month: February 2016
5D glass disc that can store data for a long long time
University of Southhampton has developed a glass disc technology that can store data up to 13.8 billion years! See the following article from The Verge: 5 dimensional glass