The Drive Stats of Backblaze Storage Pods
Since 2013, Backblaze has written about the failure rates of drives. Let's take that a step further and look at Drive Stats in our fleet of storage servers.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
Read the quarterly and lifetime failure rates for Backblaze hard drives.
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Smaller capacity hard drives are more susceptible to failure as they age, study finds
A quick peek at the most recent report from cloud storage provider Backblaze concludes that larger drives—12TB, 14TB, and 16TB—fail less frequently than smaller capacity versions. During...
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Testing shows SSDs are now more reliable than hard drives
Backblaze tested thousands of SSDs for four years, and the results are surprising
Source: pcworld.com
Are SSDs as reliable as HDDs now?
BackBlazes latest Drive Stats report reveals that SSDs have now become as reliable as HDDs.
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Hard Drive Failure Rates for Q1 2021
As of March 31, 2021, Backblaze had 175,443 drives spread across four data centers on two continents. Of that number, there were 3,187 boot drives and 172,256 data drives. The boot drives consisted of 1,669 hard drives and 1,518 SSDs. This report will review the quarterly and lifetime failure rates for our data drives, and we’ll compare the failure rates of our HDD and SSD boot drives. Along the way, we’ll share our observations and insights of the data presented, and as always we look forw...
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