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Backblaze publishes 2018 hard drive reliability stats for Q1

Accepted submission by hereweareagain at 2018-05-03 15:15:30 from the my-hard-drives-last-for-years dept.
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hereweareagain [soylentnews.org] 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/ [zdnet.com]

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q1-2018/ [backblaze.com]

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