Backblaze publishes the hard drives that have failed the most in Q3 2018
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As of September 30, Backblaze had 99, 636 hard drives on its servers. Of that number, there were 1, 866 boot drives and 97, 770 data drives. This review examines the quarterly and lifetime statistics of operating data unit models in Backblaze data centers.
Backblaze statistics belong to the third quarter of 2018
Backblaze usually shares the statistics of all the storage units they use on its servers, along with their failure rates, information that can be very useful to know the durability of the different brands of hard drives that are marketed. These statistics are debuting 12TB HGST drives and increased the capacity of the company's servers by more than 40 petabytes.
At the end of the third quarter of 2018, Backblaze was monitoring 97, 770 hard drives used to store data, from which these statistics have been taken.
HGST's new 12TB drives are just 79, of which none have failed. On the other hand, the model that failed the most was the Western Digital WD60EFRX 6TB drive with more than 4%. Also noteworthy is the reliability of Seagate with its 10TB drive, of which only 6 out of the 1, 220 drives they had failed. However, Seagate's 4TB drives failed at 2.81%, about 3, 317 drives out of the more than 24, 000 they owned. This is a worrying amount, along with those of the 6 TB Western Digital.
The data collected is until September 30, 2018, where the company has dispensed for the first time with those units below 4 TB.
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