Western Digital was sued on Tuesday on behalf of a California resident who claims the solid state drive he bought from the manufacturer was defective and that the storage slinger shipped kit that didn’t live up to its marketing promises. The Register r…

SanDisk’s silence this week has been deafening. Its portable SSDs are being lambasted as users and tech publications call for them to be pulled. From a report: The recent scrutiny of the drives follows problems from this spring when users, including an…

For over a decade, Backblaze’s quarterly reports on the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of its substantial hard disk drives inventory have offered a peek into long-term storage utilization. The company, known for its backup and cloud storage services, …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When should you be concerned about a NAS hard drive failing? Multiple factors are at play, so many might turn to various SMART (self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology) data. When it co…

Millions of storage devices are being shredded each year, even though they could be reused. “You don’t need an engineering degree to understand that’s a bad thing,” says Jonmichael Hands. From a report: He is the secretary and treasurer of the Circular…

ARM has joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Programmable Infrastructure project, “a community-driven initiative focused on creating a standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation architectures and frameworks” based on programmable processor techno…