Comments on: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Fri, 19 May 2023 21:06:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Mark McGrath https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327872 Tue, 25 May 2021 10:09:18 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327872 Greetings.
Thanks for a great article and some very enlightening infographics.
The difference between Toshiba and Seagate failure rates are not that far apart in terms of one clearly out performs the other.

]]> By: TheDragonFire961 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327770 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 04:19:57 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327770 In reply to pao.

Many of these drives have estimated or published platter/disk counts (see RML527’s HDD platter capacity). You could probably edit them in yourself.

]]> By: Kenneth_Almquist https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327766 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:39:56 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327766 In reply to David Cartagena.

It could be either, but I believe that damage in transit is a much more common problem that manufacturing flaws.

]]> By: David Cartagena https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327767 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:14:57 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327767 In reply to Kenneth_Almquist.

Yes it is indeed strange that two drives was faulty. I have read about other problems with the HGST drives not being recognized by some PC’s with certain RAID controllers onboard even though they are SATA drives and should be compatible.

David

]]> By: pao https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327765 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:55:55 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327765 To be honest, can’t really say much with these numbers. Can you include platter/disk count column in these sheets? I think that says more about reliability.

]]> By: David Cartagena https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327764 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 01:02:36 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327764 I bought two HGST drives after reading your earlier stats.

But both drives I got could not be recognized by my PC. I sent them in for a refund and since they both had errors I got my refund.

I was quite confused after this experience and wonder whether they was damaged in transit or if it was an fabrication error.

I bought these 12 TB HGST drives:

HGST Ultrastar He12 SATA 4Kn ISE HUH721212ALN600

David

]]> By: mongle https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327763 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 02:42:43 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327763 Thanks for the info.

Do you record or qualify the failure type, failure-state SMART data or anything like that?

]]> By: TheDragonFire961 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327714 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:24:50 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327714 In reply to Daniel Feenberg.

That particular model was migrated away from en masse. It was in an older post of theirs.

]]> By: Joaquin Esteban https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/#comment-327707 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:35:41 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=97285#comment-327707 👍]]> Thanks for the reports 👌👍

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