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
tomshardware.com
2026-07-28
The surge in demand driven by AI has pushed external SSD and flash drive prices to extremely high levels. However, for long-time PC builders or those who have upgraded their laptop boot drives in the last decade, there's a good chance they have older drives sitting unused in drawers or closets. Thes