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One billion hours on, and HGST still rules the roost for hard disk reliability

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Cloud backup provider Backblaze has published the latest data it has accumulated about the reliability of the hard drives it uses. In the first quarter of the year, the company passed more than a billion hours of aggregate drive usage since it started tracking reliability in April 2013.

HGST's drives have long stood out...

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Indefinite prison for suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives, feds say

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Federal prosecutors urged a federal appeals court late Monday to keep a child-porn suspect behind bars—where he already has been for seven months—until he unlocks two hard drives that the government claims contains kid smut.

The suspect, a Philadelphia police sergeant relieved of his duties, has refused to unlock two hard drives and has...

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BAHFest London: Hard science collides with fake theories on Trump and squirrels

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Would I like to cover Barfest? Why, of course! Even though it seems like some form of alcoholic devolution, considering I was very recently in Germany at Puke-Fest... Oh, sorry, I see—you mean BAHFest, aka the Festival of Bad ad Hoc Hypotheses. I consider myself a layperson when it comes to hard science so, in...

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