disk failure
Storage medium malfunction
Disk failure is when a computer's storage drive stops working properly, either gradually degrading or failing catastrophically.
Data may become inaccessible or corrupted.
The term applies to both traditional spinning hard drives and solid-state drives: We lost everything in the disk failure, The server went down due to disk failure.
Redundant storage systems like RAID protect against single disk failures.
- crashSudden violent impact
- hard driveComputer's internal storage device
- corruptedMade impure or dishonest
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- system restoreUndo recent computer changes
data loss · lost files · bad sectors · backup · sector · platter · spindle · clicking · click of death · RAID · storage · malfunction · error · unreadable · catastrophic · technician · panic · irretrievable
- malfunctionsbroken, defective, glitch, faulty, error
- tech problemsbug, paper jam, low ink, dropped calls, bugs
- Computer Errorserror message, crash, warning, internal error, fatal error
- hardware failureshard drive crash, overheating, thermal runaway, dead battery, bad sectors
- system failuressystem crash, outage, server crash, fatal error, blue screen
- data storagehard drive, hard drives, backup, gigabyte, flash drives