The WDC 14TB and the HGST 12TB, which have an AFR of 0.3 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively, are the most outstanding drives on the market today. On the whole, the best-performing drives are comprised of seven units ranging in capacity from 4 to 16TB and produced by Seagate, WDC, and HGST. Backblaze is also pleased to inform that the lifetime average failure rate of its hard drives has continued to decline over time. All of these drives have an average failure rate of less than 0.5 percent, indicating that they are reliable performers for Backblaze's servers, which have very minimal dependability problems. The HGST 12TB drive, on the other hand, has shown to be extremely reliable, with zero drive failures reported during its entire life cycle.Īdditional solid-state drives on the list include the HGST 4TB, HGST 12TB, and WDC 14TB drives, among others. Backblaze points out that these drives are still in their infancy, with only a limited amount of activity time, but that the results are still encouraging. With the exception of the HGST drive, all of these drives experienced only one drive failure. The HGST 12TB drive, the Seagate 6TB drive, the Toshiba 4TB drive, the Toshiba 14TB drive, and the WDC 16TB drive are the best-performing drives for the third quarter of 2021. The only exception is the removal of 386 drives, which were either in small quantities or were being utilized for testing reasons at the time of removal. 194,749 drives were in use by the corporation as of September 30th, 2021, spread across four data centers and two continents, with 3537 drives that were a combination of SSDs and hard drives.īackblaze cataloged these drives in order to determine which ones had failed and which ones had been the most trustworthy during the quarter.
#BACKBLAZE HARD DRIVE RELIABILITY 2021 UPDATE#
Backblaze is back with an update on its hard disk and SSD failure rates for the third quarter of 2021.
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