I have an interesting question here. When you've had a disk go bad while running linux, what kind of messages did you see on the console prior to this? Maybe also, what messages were seen that might ...

Customers are replacing disk drives at rates far higher than those suggested by the estimated mean time to failure (MTTF) supplied by drive vendors, according to a study of about 100,000 drives ...

Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks can be expected to fail each year. But data collected from 100,000 installed disks says otherwise. Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks ...

Disk failure prediction represents a critical research area in ensuring the reliability of modern data storage systems. As data centres become more complex and the volume of stored data increases ...

I had an interesting discussion recently with DriveSavers, one of the leading hard disk recovery firms in North America. We talk a lot about messaging, collaboration and unified messaging systems ...

How can a maker of RAID chipsets/drivers/software NOT provide a way of emailing an admin of a disk failure? Well, Intel found a way. Despite fancy software, systray notifications and graphics, they ...

When you boot your HP computer and it fails to boot and throws the SMART Hard Disk Error 301, 302, 309, 30A, 30B, 30C, 3F1, or 3F2, then the fixes we have presented ...

In case you are experiencing hard disk logic errors in your Windows PC and need hard disk repair software, this page shows six disk repair solutions to save you from data loss, including free hard ...

If the error occurred due to a temporary glitch, it may be fixed by performing a hard reset. Follow these steps: Turn off your computer. Disconnect all peripherals ...

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a hard disk monitoring software with highest possible support of HDD/SSD/SSHD (hybrid) drives. Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring ...

At this year’s Usenix File and Storage Technologies Conference in San Jose, we were treated to two papers studying failure rates in disk populations numbering over 100,000. These kinds of data sets ...