How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

As of December 2025, the largest hard disk drive released has a capacity of 36TB. Seagate added the Exos M (ST36000NM003K) ...

Imagine a six-drive array of 80GB hard drives that fits entirely in a single 5.25-inch, 1/2 height drive bay. This is made possible by using 2.5-inch drives primarily targeted for laptop systems. We ...

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 ...

You might think that hard drives have a shelf life—and that’s partially the case. However, an old hard drive probably has a ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

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 ...

Yesterday, Intel Storage Matrix reported that one of the drives in my RAID 1 array was having errors. I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue and diagnose if there's something wrong with the driver or ...

Secondary hard drives are commonly added to a computer to increase the data storage capacity, but they can also be used to improve system performance. Hard drives are the slowest part of the computer ...

Situation is that I just got a fourth 8tb WD Red and want to expand my DS916 SHR so that it has four 8tb drives. (details follow) I haven't started this process yet. => 18tb SHR array, all have no bad ...

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, ...