SFF.Network Backblaze Releases Hard Drive Failure Rates for 2022

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Backblaze is is a cloud storage provider that works with some of the top companies in the world. It’s also been one of the go-to guides for long term hard drive reliability reporting, and has released the failure rates of its drives in an annual report. The 2022 failure rate report has arrived and it’s an interesting read.Keep in mind I said reporting and not testing, which I’ll address later in this news post.
 
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Based on the report, we can see four different manufactures are listed, albeit Seagate has more...

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[confusis]

I think I'll continue my usage of WD drives Even though mine are older, but I use them soooooo much less. Reminds me, what's the login to my NAS again -_-

 

[Revenant]

I think I'll continue my usage of WD drives Even though mine are older, but I use them soooooo much less. Reminds me, what's the login to my NAS again -_-

I tend to lean toward WD as well. I've only ever had one fail in my life. Unfortunately it was a 2TB Black model back when that was a big drive. That said, my 74GB Raptor is still going strong. It's in my P3-933 retro system.

My NAS has WD Red Pro drives. Not sure if I'll spend the cash for them again though when I eventually upgrade.

 

[robbee]

WD reds here too! I have two of them turning 9 years old in a month and they're still going strong