Hacker News with Generative AI: Hard Drives

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2025 (backblaze.com)
Welcome to the first Drive Stats of 2025. In case you missed it, the 2024 Drive Stats report was the last for long-time Drive Stats guru, Andy Klein, who is happily retired—off putting the “green” in greener pastures by working on his golf game. We–being Backblaze staff writer Stephanie Doyle and Chief Technical Evangelist Pat Patterson–are picking up where Andy left off, bringing you the metrics and analysis you know and love. Now, on to the numbers!

Data Analysis, Hard Drives, Cloud Storage

21 points by HieronymusBosch 10 days ago | 0 comments

WD Launches HDD Recycling Process That Reclaims Rare Earth Elements (tomshardware.com)

Hard Drives, Recycling, Sustainability

5 points by bradac56 31 days ago | 0 comments

WD launches HDD recycling that reclaims rare earth elements, cuts out China (tomshardware.com)

Hard Drives, Recycling, Rare Earths, China

5 points by miles 32 days ago | 1 comments

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found (downtowndougbrown.com)
In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time, I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position. This post is going to be all about it. It’s the tale of a tad bit of an obsession, what felt like a hopeless search, and how persistence eventually paid off.

Apple, Technology History, Data Recovery, Hard Drives

315 points by chmaynard 69 days ago | 99 comments

Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks (heise.de)
Almost 200 readers have now noticed long runtimes on their new Seagate hard disks. Reports from abroad are also increasing.

Hardware, Hard Drives, Fraud, Consumer Issues

148 points by namanyayg 103 days ago | 92 comments

Seagate's HDD scandal deepens clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms (tomshardware.com)

Hard Drives, Data Storage, Cryptocurrency, China

15 points by snvzz 103 days ago | 0 comments

Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3 extended (tomshardware.com)

Hard Drives, Storage, Technology, Hardware

5 points by rbanffy 121 days ago | 0 comments

Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video] (tom7.org)

Hard Drives, Technology, Video, Reviews

425 points by pabs3 265 days ago | 72 comments

Amazon sells fake, dead Toshiba hard drives as new [video] (youtube.com)