New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba
Backblaze data was adjusted for drive age, capacity, temperature, form factor, and early retirement
Study finds that when HDDs fail, it's typically within 3 years of operation
HDDs don't have long lives
SSD reliability is only slightly better than HDD, Backblaze says
A surprising outcome for the first SSD-based AFR report
Smaller capacity hard drives are more susceptible to failure as they age, study finds
Backblaze tested 230,921 HDDs consisting of 29 models from manufacturers like Seagate, Toshiba, and others
Hard drives are expected to reach a penny per gigabyte by mid-2025
A penny for your thoughts, or a gigabyte of storage?
Backblaze data shows SSDs have lower failure rates than HDDs
The big picture: A key selling point of solid state drives is that they are less failure-prone than HDDs. However, data from recent years began to cast doubt on that assumption, but at least one new long-term analysis shows this might prove correct as time marches on.
Backblaze data shows SSD failure patterns on trend with HDDs
Cloud storage provider confirms they are burning through SSDs as quickly as HDDs
Backblaze records zero failures for three HDD models in latest Q2 2021 drive reliability report
Out of 177,935 HDDs in the company's data centers, 439 units failed during the past quarter
Backblaze will now let Chia miners store and farm plots in the cloud
$5/mo gives access to 1TB of space on Backblaze's B2 cloud platform
Backblaze's latest storage reliability figures add SSD boot drive failure rates to the mix
As expected, solid state storage fails far less often than mechanical drives
Backblaze publishes HDD reliability stats for Q2 2019
Seagate drives record the highest failure rates across high- and low-capacity disks
Backblaze shares the most and least reliable hard drives of 2018
Average hard drive capacity has nearly doubled in two years
Backblaze's Q3 report shows large capacity drives are more reliable
12TB, 10TB, and 8TB drives don't fail as often
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Large-capacity hard drives are holding up well in data centers
More usage time is needed to draw any solid conclusions, however
Backblaze 5.0 increases restore/access speed, adds image preview, and more
The Rapid Access Release
