Comments on: Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q2 2015

By: JBlythe

JBlythe — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:21:00 +0000

This article just pushed me toward the HGST, away from the hyped and therefore tempting Barracuda. A failure of my Seagate external in a little over 2years, should of made it unnecessary for me to even compare, but glad I found this info.

By: jj

jj — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:21:00 +0000

First of all, thank you for sharing the data.

as I scan the raw data, I found that some of the hardware shows
“0,0,0,0,0,NA,0,0,0,NA,0,0,0,0,0,0,0”
or
in some cases show (for example)
,0,0,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,NA,0,0,0,0,0,

both examples shows that hardware did not fail.

I wonder what happens during the period that “NA” appears???

please answer me as soon as possible

By: Ben Jolly

Ben Jolly — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 01:48:00 +0000

In reply to leexgx. @leexgx:disqus raid doesn't detect bitrot by itself. it provides redundancy in case of disk failure. that is why disk scrubbing is required to detect the flipped bit/s and then utilise the parity to correct it.

By: Daniel Hansson

Daniel Hansson — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:08:00 +0000

/s/wd/hgst/

By: Rodrigo Arena

Rodrigo Arena — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 17:14:00 +0000

Hi guy… What about the Adata external hardrives? i want to buy the HV100 2 teras external hardrive, but i cannot find any source of information like this about that one.

does anyone have experience with that Hardrive? (Adata HV100)

By: Tesla3D

Tesla3D — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:26:00 +0000

In reply to Michele. Seagate GoFlex 4 of 4 fail within 3 years. Always keep a backup.

By: Wyzak

Wyzak — Thu, 05 May 2016 06:58:00 +0000

In reply to Ozfer. We've replaced most of our Seagates with Toshibas and have had very little issues since.

By: Wyzak

Wyzak — Thu, 05 May 2016 06:55:00 +0000

Yep, we stopped buying Seagates about 4 years ago due to their extremely high failure rate.

By: Dan McGuinness

Dan McGuinness — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:15:00 +0000

This is awesome – thanks for continuing to share this data. It’s very hard to obtain good reliability data as a small consumer, but very helpful when purchasing drives with intent of long term data storage! Thanks again, and please keep the data coming :)