Friday, November 28, 2014

How reliable are hard drives?

Who makes the most reliable hard drives? | ExtremeTech:

"...Backblaze, an all-you-can-eat online backup company... currently has around 28,000 hard drives powered up and constantly spinning, storing a total of around 80,000 terabytes (80 petabytes) of user data... As of the end of December 2013, Backblaze had 12,765 Seagate drives, 12,956 Hitachi drives, and 2,838 Western Digital drives."

Hard drive failure rate, plotted by monthHard drive annual failure rate, broken down by maker (Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital) and size

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