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Backblaze has released its hard drive statistics for 2017.
Beginning in April 2013, Backblaze has recorded and saved daily hard drive statistics from the drives in our data centers. Each entry consists of the date, manufacturer, model, serial number, status (operational or failed), and all of the SMART attributes reported by that drive. As of the end of 2017, there are about 88 million entries totaling 23 GB of data. You can download this data from our website if you want to do your own research, but for starters here's what we found.
[...] For 2017 we added 25,746 new drives, and lost 6,442 drives to retirement for a net of 19,304 drives. When you look at storage space, we added 230 petabytes and retired 19 petabytes, netting us an additional 211 petabytes of storage in our data center in 2017.
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:11PM
While this is going to be touted as a real world hard drive test, a datacenter and desktop are two different environments. One is temp control. Data center now a days run there server very hot to save on AC costs. My personal experience shows that if you keep a WD digital drive nice an cool with proper airflow over it, it will not fail. While if running hot like most desktop cases are, will fail early. Seagate is opposite, will still fail under cool conditions, but will last longer in hot conditions. Because of that, Seagate and other drives like it will seem to be a better drive with stats like that. While other drives have a much better failure rate under better conditions.