Comments on: Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017

By: Sea Ho

Sea Ho — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:11:42 +0000

Thanks for your report!

By: Indice affidabilità hard disk – Trick IT

Indice affidabilità hard disk – Trick IT — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:18:04 +0000

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By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:37:00 +0000

I am glad Backblaze has published such data.

I can agree, my Hitachi drive (2012) has proved to be reliable (compared to other drives I have owned). I went for a 3.5″ 5400 RPM, since they they would be less intensive then a 7200RPM, create less heat and be more reliable. So far, I have not heard any strange clicking noises!

The only frustration is trying to find a bigger capacity Hitachi drives, this is why I am writing this and I need help and advice and clarification. I don’t want a Hitachi NAS drive, just a regular desktop drive. I don’t mind if it is slow, but it must be very very reliable!.

I don’t have any confidence in Seagate or Western Digital. Their reviews are terrible.

I did received a new computer with a 4TB Toshiba drive (2018), but it kept making clicking noises. So it was n’t very quiet. So I had the hard disk returned.

Western Digital took over Hitachi, but reading people’s reviews, I can’t see their reliability has improved.

Ideally, I want a 4TB desktop (external drive) USB. I don’t want a NAS drive due to noise.

Can anyone guide me? I really want a drive made by the same people who made by Hitachi drive, but I know when companies get taken over, every things changes. Good people can leave a company etc….

By: DanSuperDuper

DanSuperDuper — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:21:00 +0000

I’m curious to know how you set up RAID? RAID6? RAID-Z2? How many drives you put into each RAID set? Have you ever lost any RAID sets?

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Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:19:43 +0000

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By: What is you backup plan - Simon Fearby

What is you backup plan - Simon Fearby — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:31:10 +0000

[…] Most larger capacity drives (over 1TB) store data on spinning metal platters and the quality and reliability varies between brand and models. Backblaze has a great write-up on hard drive reliability (based on experience of tens of thousands of drives): https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2017/ […]

By: Mister Wirez

Mister Wirez — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:40:00 +0000

@Backblaze maybe one of you guys could help me. My brother is a network IT guy and he gave a brand new DELL PowerEdge T610 Server, but it only has 2 – 160Gb hard drives in it., Id like to get that capacity way up, but my eyes almost fell out of my head when I saw the price of the Dell enterprise drives!!

I’m looking for inexpensive & reliable 8Gb consumer grade hard drives for the T610 Server.
I’m going to be using it for my family data, music & movie streamer with Plex server/transcoder.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks..

By: Toke Lahti

Toke Lahti — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:08:00 +0000

I’d like to see simply the average lifetime of drives that died, model by model.
Maybe “died in infancy” removed.
Andy, can you do that this month?

By: Don't Buy A Hard Drive Until You've Read This. - ESolutions

Don't Buy A Hard Drive Until You've Read This. - ESolutions — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:06:08 +0000

[…] before you even think about buying a new disk (spinning rust or SSD). The best place to start is https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2017/ and all the information is free to access. You can even download some very detailed data if you […]