tomshardware.com
2026-08-15
A peer-reviewed IEEE study by Christoph Siemroth of the University of Essex and Yeomyung Park of Sungkyunkwan University reanalyzes 12 years of public hard drive data from Backblaze, covering 443,156 drives and over 1.66 million drive-years from 2013 to Q2 2025. The study finds that HGST drives fail