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 ...

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