For more than two decades, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology for increasing hard drive density—drives that use tiny lasers ...

Their Q1 2022 report just came out. They have a new visualization in this quarter's report too, kinda cool. As of the end of Q1 2022, Backblaze was monitoring 207,872 hard drives used to store data.

Cloud backup provider Backblaze has released its hard drive reliability statistics for the first quarter of 2020. The company compared active hard drives used in its operations from Seagate, Toshiba, ...