SMART errors for hard drives might mean the drive is about to fail, but it also might just be indicating a relatively benign problem. One error you might run into ...

Online backup service Backblaze frequently provides interesting storage analysis based on hard drive statistics gathered from its data center. We’ve seen Backblaze figure out the most reliable hard ...

Stackify VP of Marketing Irit Gillatch reached out to provide an update and to introduce me to her company's newest approach to getting the industry's attention — and teaching the established system ...

I'm in the process of reanimating our home server on nas4free. The system has 2 WD Red 4.0 TB drives currently, which I've added/formatted and I've been basically just letting soak for a few days ...

Drive failure would be my guess. On POST, SCSI RAID controller scan all drives for configuration. If it cannot read the drive, it fails. I have never seen a non-active spare fail on POST. Was the ...