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If your hard drive is dying, this could be why

Posted on February 3, 2023August 27, 2023 By bot

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New data from cloud backup and storage management firm Backblaze appears to verify that the age of a hard disk drive (HDD) increases the likelihood of it failing.A report published in a post (opens in new tab) on the Backblaze blog (via The Register (opens in new tab)) states that the age of a drive was deemed an important factor in predicting failure in correlation with, according to Backblaze’s “cloud storage evangelist” Andy Klein, Backblaze’s
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