backblaze

BackBlaze regularly posts failure rates for their substantial collection of hard drives, and according to the results they published just a month ago, they have over 100,000 of them to test. But as we've recently noted, flash memory prices are dropping like a rock, hence solid state drives are...

Since 2013 Backblaze has published the data from its massive army of hard drives, and today they have released the results of Q1 2018. As of March 31, 2018 they had 100,110 drives, and the 26 GB of SMART data lets us see how these bits of spinning rust are holding up. Looks like there is less...

Backup company Backblaze has released it's hard drive data from 2017. During Q3 and Q4 Backblaze removed nearly all the 3TB drives it had in service, and began installing 10TB and 12TB drives in their place. One thing that has been true year after year, HGST drives are pretty reliable. I look...