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Backblaze's hard drive report for the first quarter of 2018 is sure to be some interesting reading if you're interested in hard drive reliability. Seagate 10TB, WD 6TB and HGST 4TB appear to be the overall best, based on the number of drive failures (0) compared to the number of drives deployed.
More info here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-reliable-are-10tb-and-12tb-hard-drives/
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q1-2018/
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Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018
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(Score: 2) by datapharmer on Friday May 04 2018, @12:07PM (3 children)
They used to be reliable in my experience until a few years back we started getting laptops with them from Dell and we had over a 25% replacement rate and the replacements they sent were even higher failure rates until they started sending WDs instead. These were Self Encrypting drives so not sure if they were coming from a different plant or something, but it was definitely physical drive failures since you could hear them start clicking.
These were not abused either they were laptops that spent most of their lives sitting on desks.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @12:33PM (1 child)
With the price of SSDs getting lower in my opinion a laptop should never have a spinning disk, ever.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday May 04 2018, @09:57PM
Agreed. And that goes for desktops as well. I had the hard drive fail on my iMac recently and replaced it with an SSD. What was a somewhat sluggishly responsive system was turned into a highly responsive system overnight. I think we overlook just how much disk latency affects the performance of our computers.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @09:13PM
You need to look at the pre- and post- Maxtor acquisition data. I can't remember it exactly, but depending on which line your drive traces back to, you can have drastically different performance and reliability.