backblaze drive stats q2 17

[drdoc]

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... s-q2-2017/

yay seagate

 

[Jared]

Looks like the 4Tb DM001's aren't faring much better than the 3Tb ones did. Albeit a smaller pool and all. But, as expected Toshiba and HGST the normal reliability winners. Exactly matches what I'm seeing here for failures.

I expect we'll be seeing DM's come in for the next decade or so (if any actually last that long).

 

[LarrySabo]

I'm confused at how they came up with such astronomical failure rates for those Seagate, with the figures provided, but I don't doubt them. No doubt they are projecting failure rates on a daily basis, rather than the quarterly results shown.

 

[Jared]

I think the number of failures is just what failed that quarter. The failure rate I suspect is the total percentage that have failed since they went into service.