The 180TB storage array, like many of our other hard drive-related stories, comes from our friends at Backblaze. Backblaze is a cloud-based backup company that provides unlimited storage for a fixed ...

I've used one Drobo or another since the first device came out in 2007. I bought the very first generation Drobo. It was slow, but I found the ease of use and reliability a big win. When the much ...

Stevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...

The ThunderBay 4 will add terabytes of storage to your Mac. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you want the biggest and highest-capacity external hard drive, Cyber Monday is the time to buy. I ...

The need to measure drive array cost-performance in terms of Input/Output Operations per second (IOPs) per Rack Unit or Megabytes per Rack Unit is forcing drive array vendors to allocate as many ...

Many of us utilize an external hard disk as our only data backup solution, storing our important files, photos, videos, games, and projects in it. It's kind of a safety net in case our primary storage ...

About two months ago, a drive in my array died. I replaced it and told the array to rebuild. However, I'm still getting rebuild warnings from the 3Ware Disk Manager. Is the new drive I put in bad or ...

Though not as fast in our tests as Seagate’s IronWolf Pro, the SkyHawk is still a very fast hard drive, tuned for surveillance purposes. Seagate says it’s optimized for use in NVRs. The AI version is ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...

An external hard drive is a great way to add massive storage to any system. The humble hard drive has been at the heart of modern PCs for decades, and though SSDs have taken the performance crown, ...