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Backblaze quarterly hard drive failure stats

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HankB

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Always good reading if you are planning on buying a large drive. Of course their drives are moving more toward enterprise drives due to their negotiating ability, but I suspect a lot of drive internals are shared between various lines (excepting SMR drives) with differences in drive firmware and warranty coverage. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/ Some discussion at Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23156815

Someone posted a link to this article which I found interesting. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-backblaze-buys-hard-drives/
 
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I think your hacker news link is off, points to the same report :)

Overall looks like Hitachi/HGST is still in good shape. Seagate has the largest numbers again in the mid 1%s
 
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