Most reliable hard drives of 2022
Backblaze has released its hard drive performance statistics for 2022, revealing the most reliable drives under its management during the past year.
The company regularly analyses tens of thousands of boot and data drives that it uses to provide backup and...
Price of 1TB portable drives in South Africa — from 2012 to 2022
The price of a 1TB portable drive has not decreased as significantly over the past ten years as one would have expected as technology advances.
Prices over time in South Africa have only dropped approximately 14% between 2012 and...
The world's most reliable hard drives
While many consumers have started the switch from hard disk drives to solid-state drives, mechanical disks are still widely used for backups and to store much of the data on the web.
Backblaze's quarterly Drive Stats reports provide useful insights into...
Best hard drives in the world
Cloud storage and data backup company Backblaze has published its latest Drive Stats report, revealing which of the hard drives used across its four data centres were the most reliable in the second quarter of 2021.
At the end of June 2021, Backblaze was...
The most reliable hard drives in the world
Cloud backup provider Backblaze has released its hard drive reliability statistics for the third quarter of 2020.
The company compiled the report from data on the active hard drives used in its daily operations - including Seagate, Toshiba, and HGST.
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The most reliable hard drives in the world
Cloud backup provider Backblaze has released its hard drive reliability statistics for the first quarter of 2019.
The company compared active hard drives used in its operations from Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, and HGST to compile the report.
How hard drive prices have changed over the last 8 years – Price per GB
Backblaze has released its latest hard drive report, outlining the cost per gigabyte of storage since 2009.
The most reliable hard drives you can buy in 2017
Backblaze – a backup solutions provider – has released its hard drive reliability statistics for the first quarter of 2017.