Posts Tagged ‘barracuda’

Thanks to the folks over at ExtremeTech for alerting us to the research of Cloud Backup vendor Backblaze. According to Backblaze, hard drive failure rates for disks of the same size and age can differ by as much as 20X. Maybe we should spend a…

Weekend sidetrack (but not completely off topic): Many of us are now using some kind of "Cloud Storage" -- in fact, one of the biggest around is called "Dropbox" (not to be confused with a 'drop-box' on a mac computer which is just a way…