Backblaze hard drive reliability statistics for 2018
Table of contents:
- Backblaze shares the hard drives that have failed the most in 2018, and the most reliable
- Statistics for the whole year 2018
Every quarter, Backblaze shares its statistics on the failure rate of hard drives, classified by manufacturer and drive size. Other useful statistics such as service and uptime are also included in the report. On this occasion, Backblaze has published the results for the entire year 2018, which can be useful for us to know which brands and capacities of hard drives are usually the most reliable.
Backblaze shares the hard drives that have failed the most in 2018, and the most reliable
Backblaze offers one of the largest cloud backup storage solutions with tens of thousands of hard drives currently in use. During 2018 they used more than 100, 000 hard drives.
With such a large sample size in such a controlled environment, these statistics are generally quite accurate in terms of unit performance based on manufacturer. The report includes a wealth of data that is definitely worth reading. Overall, Seagate was probably the worst offender when it comes to faulty hard drives compared to other brands like Western Digital or Hitachi.
Statistics for the whole year 2018
We can see two units that were the most failed, the Western Digital WD60EFRX had a failure rate of 2.15%, although only 383 units of this model were used. Next up is the Seagate ST4000DM000, which failed 2.13% of the 23, 236 disks used in 2018. Interestingly, there was a model that never failed and belongs to Toshiba, but only 45 hard drives were used.
In total, of the 104, 778 hard drives used, 1, 222 have failed, the 1.25% failure rate.
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Backblaze releases 2018 hard drive reliability statistics
As of March 31, 2018 Backblaze had 100,110 hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,922 boot drives and 98,188 data drives. This review examines the quarterly and lifetime statistics of operating data unit models in Backblaze data centers.
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Backblaze is a cloud storage service that has more than 100,000 installed hard drives from different manufacturers.
