I use an old LC III that I found at a garage sale, which I upraded to a 2gb Quantum Fireball hard drive from the original 80mb Apple. I partitioned it with Lido 7 (rather than the hacked Disk Utility ...

Recently my parents' computer stopped reading the hard drive, and would no longer boot. It finishes the POST, but at the point where it would normally start the OS, it instead says "disk read failure" ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change passwords, and recover data … all ...

When we think about the benefits our computers have afforded us one of the most common attributes for which they are credited is their ability to complete a number of tasks within a short period of ...

The latest quarterly report from Backblaze on hard drive reliability reveals a rise in failures among certain drives. Backblaze is a pure storage provider; cloud storage is all they do, and they dig ...

Businesses often require the use of dual-boot setups -- computers that can run more than one operating system -- to access certain applications or hardware. Some older software and devices aren't ...

Seagate announced two new plans Monday to give consumers peace of mind when it comes to their hard drives: Seagate Rescue and Seagate Rescue and Replace. Traditionally, data recovery in the event of a ...

Hardware durability metrics are drawn from the cloud storage provider’s portfolio of more than 230,000 hard drives under management. Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze released its latest ...

Bottom line: In addition to the quarterly reports on HDD failure rates published by Backblaze, the cloud backup and storage company has now added SSD boot drives to its data starting with Q1 2021. As ...