Backblaze HD Stats w Enterprise Drives & Disk Drive Life

[HDFan]

Backblaze has just released their Hard Drive Status for Q1 2017. What is interesting is that they purchased several thousand enterprise drives (they normally use consumer drives). It is too early yet to tell how they will perform, but they do have some initial comments about the 2 drive types.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/

They have an earlier article from 2013 which is useful as it discusses "How long do disk drives last".

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

 

[saudor]

ha. looks like those seagates still top the charts for failures.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hi, this is the official Seagate forums team! We are currently establishing and expanding the team to be closer to customers and deliver an even better customer experience.

In regards to what has been posted in this thread we would like to mention that we are aware of what is being published and how things are spreading all over the internet. However -without understating possible issues- there are always two sides of the story. In case you are interested to get a better idea of what was going on, we would like to refer to the following articles / comments:

• https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/17/backblaze_how_not_to_evaluate_disk_reliability
  
• http://insidehpc.com/2015/02/henry-newman-on-why-backblaze-is-still-wrong-about-disk-reliability/
• http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html#UX5OD0IAgPphmv71.99

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