Backblaze reports Q3 2017 HDD Failure results - includes 12 TB Drives as well
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easytomy
Can someone please explain what "Drive days" means? 'cause if that's the time the drive has been operating... some of them have been working since over 8600 years ago... 🙂)
IMSupervisor
If you have 100 drives and run them for a week, you have 700 days of usage.
Robbo9999
Take home message is that you don't want a 4TB Seagate drive!
easytomy
nevcairiel
KissSh0t
Interesting stats... gotta love Seagate..
FeDaYin
Kaarme
AlmondMan
xIcarus
Holy cock those Seagate 4TB drives. So if I understand it correctly, 1/3 of them fail within a year of usage?
heffeque
KissSh0t
xrodney
Picolete
SoloCreep
Every Seagate I've ever owned has failed.
slyphnier
Loophole35
Makes me feel a little better about my recent Toshiba purchase. It was Between them and HSGT.
schmidtbag
TieSKey
If they mix together new and old drives, I don't see how this tables can be of any use ....
Example:
Brand A has 50 disks 5 years old and 50 1 year old. Then 20 disks fail so fail rate is 20% on average 250 disk years.
Brand B has 100 disks 3 year old. Then 20 disks fail, so fail rate is 20% on average 250 disk years.
Brand A and B would look identical in those tables but A is actually more reliable than B in the case only old disks fail, or terrible worse than B if the failing ones are the newer......
allesclar
No issues with my seagates.
2 months old and counting!!!