Sentences with phrase «drive failure rates»

Last year Backblaze published the hard drive failure rates it experienced, and it just updated those numbers with data from 2014.

Not exact matches

They also posted a 2.8 percent annualized failure rate for their 4 TB Seagate drives — below Backblaze's average annual failure rate reported in the study above — which is as close as we have to a comprehensive report on a specific hard drive manufacturer's reliability as of this writing.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and other factors.

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For one, a speeding and failure to observe violation are considered «minor offenses», while reckless driving is considered a major offense and thus weighs heavier on your rates.

«It's important to understand that the world is a changing environment and the rate of change is often what drives investment success or failure.»

That failure becomes even more glaring when you consider that Indianapolis had been allowing a score on 64 percent of those short drives, the second - worst rate in the league.

In an effort to better manage the inherently high failure rate of innovation across industries, today's savviest executives are refocusing around a central idea: customer needs should always drive innovation.

Each firm's prospects are driven by a unique constellation of factors (for example, whether the industry is capital - intensive or not, whether its earnings are interest rate sensitive, what the barriers to entry are) and so you have to go through a painstaking process of disassembling and studying each as if it were a machine, with an eye to identifying its likely future performance and possible failure points.

For the price, though, you get some stunning performance — this drive has been measured at 1.4 million hours Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), meaning they have the highest possible rating for currently available traditional SATA hard drives.

Rock - solid reliability - With 1.4 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure), these drives have the highest available reliability rating on a high capacity SATA drive

And despite their dual construction, the failure rate of hybrid drives is about the same as standard HDDs, as the flash - based cache is unlikely to fail before the physical hard disk.

I'll learn that I just don't care that much if I have to mess with downloading everything onto a hard drive, especially when I hear horror stories of just how difficult it can be to get all your downloaded content back should that hard drive crash, and when system failure rates are so stupidly high these days, yeah, that's a concern that's ever present for me.

Even when backed by a warranty, failure rates drive lost revenue for investors, developers and plant operators.

The bottom line: if you want great reliability in a desktop hard drive, you probably want a 4 TB hard drive from HGST (1.4 % failure rate) or Seagate (2.6 % failure rate).

Infractions such as careless driving, failure to stop and driving more than 30 miles - an - hour over the speed limit can cause a hike of about 15 percent in your insurance rates, Lauderdale said.

Minor violations, such as failure to wear a seat belt or driving with expired tags, may not affect your insurance rates.

For one, a speeding and failure to observe violation are considered «minor offenses», while reckless driving is considered a major offense and thus weighs heavier on your rates.

However, failure to pay parking tickets may, in certain municipalities, lead to a suspended driver's license, and if you happen to drive on a suspended license, that is considered a moving violation, which could result in increased insurance rates.

Failure to insure your vehicle can lead to hefty fines, points on your driving record, and even higher premium rates when you finally insure the bike.

Failure to dismiss traffic citations in Louisiana will result in higher traffic violation payments and harsh penalties such as suspension of driving privileges, or an increase in the car insurance rates.

Failure to beat a traffic ticket in Idaho may result in higher driving fines and fees, which must be paid in order to avoid harsh penalties such as driver's license suspensions or revocations, and an increase in your car insurance rates.

Backblaze found that Hitachi drives had the lowest failure rate, Western Digital drives had the second lowest failure rate, and Seagate drives had the highest failure rate of the three brands tested.

In January, 2014, Backblaze examined failure rates among the 27,134 hard drives they were using at the time.

There's no NAND redundancy built in to the drive as OCZ is fairly comfortable with the error and failure rates at 25nm.

The lawsuit alleges that because all of Seagate's 3 TB drives were prone to high failure rates, replacing those drives with the same model was not an effective solution.

These drives are capable of running at a fast 7,200 rpm spin rate 24/7 without having to worry about drive failure.

For example, compared to their peers, adolescents with ADHD experience higher rates of family conflict (Deault 2010), peer problems (Gardner and Gerdes 2013), academic failure (DuPaul and Langberg 2014), comorbid mental health problems (Larson et al. 2011), substance use (Lee et al. 2011), and driving citations / crashes (Barkley et al. 1996).