"The Shocking Truth — Managing for Hard Drive Failure and Data Corruption"

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/managing-for-hard-drive-failures-data-corruption/

"Ah, the iconic 3.5″ hard drive, now approaching a massive 16TB of
storage capacity. Backblaze storage pods fit 60 of these drives in a
single pod, and with well over 750 petabytes of customer data under
management in our data centers, we have a lot of hard drives under
management."

"Yet most of us have just one, or only a few of these massive drives at
a time storing our most valuable data. Just how safe are those hard
drives in your office or studio? Have you ever thought about all the
awful, terrible things that can happen to a hard drive? And what are
they, exactly?"

"It turns out there are a host of obvious physical dangers, but also
other, less obvious, errors that can affect the data stored on your hard drives, as well."

Lynn

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