Drive failure statistics from Backblaze

Quartz · 2 Aug 2016 at 23:03

I strongly recommend people read this blog entry from Backblaze before buying HDDs.

TLDR: Hitachi drives are the most reliable; Western Digital the worst.

Hotwired · 2 Aug 2016 at 23:17

Quartz said:
I strongly recommend people read this blog entry from Backblaze before buying HDDs.

TLDR: Hitachi drives are the most reliable; Western Digital the worst.

Plot twist: HGST is owned by Western Digital

FloppyPoppy · 2 Aug 2016 at 23:33

Quartz said:
TLDR: Hitachi drives are the most reliable; Western Digital the worst.

Didn't read it all just checked the graph and am confused by your statement when the seagate drives have up to 19.81% failure rates compared to 8.72 on WD

Or are you just trying to make WD look back for some reason?

Hotwired said:
Plot twist: HGST is owned by Western Digital

Also this.

Quartz · 3 Aug 2016 at 00:00

harry5522 said:
Didn't read it all

You should have read further: you're looking at the first table, the one for Q2 2016. I'm referring to the second table, the one from 2013 to date.

BlackAle · 3 Aug 2016 at 05:06

That table is largely meaningless as the drive count range is massive, hence take no notice of the failure rates.

Backblaze's usage is a lot different to the average user.

Armageus · 3 Aug 2016 at 06:04

BlackAle said:
Backblaze's usage is a lot different to the average user.

Pretty much exactly this. Drives are less likely to fail in a home pc where you don't have the heat or vibration of running 20+ drives in a case.

nutcase · 3 Aug 2016 at 08:53

Here we go again lol