More than half the stored data in the world resides on hard drives. Yes, a 50+ year old technology is storing our photos, music, research, taxes, and more— and nobody blinks an eye. Given that over one zettabyte of hard drive storage shipped in 2020, this storage media is not going away anytime soon.

Andy Klein has 25 years of experience in the cloud storage, email security, and network security fields. At Backblaze he dives into terabytes of hard drive SMART data to deliver quarterly and annual Drive Stats reports detailing hard drive failure rates and other unique facts, figures, and insights.

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