New Backblaze report.

[don256us]

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2024

Read the Q2 2024 Drive Stats Report, with the latest on annualized failure rates and a look into measuring drive consistency over time.

www.backblaze.com

Long gone are the days where friends would not let friends buy Seagate and where HGST ruled the reliability realm. Now both companies both rock and tank depending on the model. Always an interesting read in my opinion.

Always keeping an eye out for my Unraided storage server.

 

[mackerel]

Most of the higher failure rates are on what are now pretty old drives. The only exception is Exos X18 with 1% rate at 5 months with a relatively small sample size.

 

[freakdiablo]

Nice. Might be up for a storage upgrade soon.

Currently running a USB RAID enclosure with 4x6TB WD Blacks in RAID5. Down to maybe 2TB free. Swapping to a full NAS enclosure with 4x12-14TB drives would make a nice step up.

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

Nice. Might be up for a storage upgrade soon.

Currently running a USB RAID enclosure with 4x6TB WD Blacks in RAID5. Down to maybe 2TB free. Swapping to a full NAS enclosure with 4x12-14TB drives would make a nice step up.

Raid 5 on drives that big, I hope you never get a drive fail.....

 

[freakdiablo]

Raid 5 on drives that big, I hope you never get a drive fail.....

I actually had a drive fail when running 4x6. Just took an overnight to rebuild the array.

I'm not terribly worried about it. The chances of a second drive dying during a rebuild, even if we're talking >10TB, is really slim.