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New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba


The peer-reviewed IEEE study was written by Christoph Siemroth of the University of Essex and Yeomyung Park of Sungkyunkwan University. It reviewed data on 443,156 drives used...

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