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 Backblaze's 2022 Drive Stats Reveal Manufacturer and Model Reliability Trends

   Adam Engst

   On the Backblaze blog, [1]Andy Klein writes:

     Starting in Q1 of 2021 and continuing to the end of 2022, we can see
     that the overall rise in the overall AFR [annualized failure rate]
     over that time seems to be driven by Seagate and, to a lesser
     degree, Toshiba, although HGST contributes heavily to the Q1 2022
     rise. In the case of Seagate, this makes sense as most of our
     Seagate drives are significantly older than any of the other
     manufacturers' drives. Before you throw your Seagate and Toshiba
     drives in the trash, you might want to consider the lifecycle cost
     of a given hard drive model versus its failure rate.

   I have long enjoyed reading Backblaze's regularly released drive stats.
   Although the company's data is less relevant for normal users than it
   used to be, given Backblaze's increased use of 16 TB drives that few
   people need, it still provides a sense of which manufacturers and
   drives last longer than others.

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