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Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 of 2018

posted by martyb on Thursday May 03 2018, @11:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-hard-drives-last-for-years dept.

hereweareagain writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Friday May 04 2018, @09:57PM

    by mendax (2840) on Friday May 04 2018, @09:57PM (#675871)

    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.

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