Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

Enjoy.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

(H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

On 2/5/2015 3:55 PM, (Neill Massello) wrote:
Enjoy.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

(H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

Ooh, a new one. What about other companies beside Backblaze? I'd like to
see various reports from others.
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Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote:
On 2/5/2015 3:55 PM, (Neill Massello) wrote:
Enjoy.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

(H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

Ooh, a new one. What about other companies beside Backblaze? I'd like to
see various reports from others.

I have not seen anything. I guess these others are cowards. Or rather
Backblaze if one of the very few non-cowards that dare naming names.

One of the "nice" side-effects of litigation cultu You do not get
critically neded data anymore, because somebody could object...


Arno

Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

On 02/09/2015 08:42 AM, Arno wrote:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote:
On 2/5/2015 3:55 PM, (Neill Massello) wrote:
Enjoy.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

(H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

Ooh, a new one. What about other companies beside Backblaze? I'd like to
see various reports from others.

I have not seen anything. I guess these others are cowards. Or rather
Backblaze if one of the very few non-cowards that dare naming names.

One of the "nice" side-effects of litigation cultu You do not get
critically neded data anymore, because somebody could object...


Arno

I'd be a lot more interested in seeing reliability data of drives
operated within their specs.

Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

On 02/12/2015 10:14 PM, cjt wrote:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

(H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

Ooh, a new one. What about other companies beside Backblaze? I'd like to
see various reports from others.

I have not seen anything. I guess these others are cowards. Or rather
Backblaze if one of the very few non-cowards that dare naming names.

One of the "nice" side-effects of litigation cultu You do not get
critically neded data anymore, because somebody could object...

I'd be a lot more interested in seeing reliability data of drives
operated within their specs.

One of the advantages of Backblaze's data is that it gives some clues
concerning the longevity of "desktop" drives (which Seagate, for
example, says are intended for 8/5 operation rather than 24/7 operation)
when they are operated 24/7. I don't know about others, but our (home)
computers are hardly ever switched off: they may sleep or hibernate, but
my guess is that the hard disks are spinning a lot longer than 8/5.

Perce

Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 02/12/2015 10:14 PM, cjt wrote:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

(H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

Ooh, a new one. What about other companies beside Backblaze? I'd like to
see various reports from others.

I have not seen anything. I guess these others are cowards. Or rather
Backblaze if one of the very few non-cowards that dare naming names.

One of the "nice" side-effects of litigation cultu You do not get
critically neded data anymore, because somebody could object...

I'd be a lot more interested in seeing reliability data of drives
operated within their specs.

One of the advantages of Backblaze's data is that it gives some clues
concerning the longevity of "desktop" drives (which Seagate, for
example, says are intended for 8/5 operation rather than 24/7 operation)
when they are operated 24/7. I don't know about others, but our (home)
computers are hardly ever switched off: they may sleep or hibernate, but
my guess is that the hard disks are spinning a lot longer than 8/5.

Perce



When any of my systems sleep (suspend to ram) or hibernate (suspend to
disk) the disk gets turned off. Hiberate powers down the computer
completely.

Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

In the last episode of , Jerry Peters
said:

When any of my systems sleep (suspend to ram) or hibernate (suspend to
disk) the disk gets turned off. Hiberate powers down the computer
completely.

Yay for people who do that. I don't, and I'm certainly not alone.

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Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

On 02/13/2015 08:37 AM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 02/12/2015 10:14 PM, cjt wrote:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/

(H/T Josh Centers at TidBITS.)

Ooh, a new one. What about other companies beside Backblaze? I'd
like to
see various reports from others.

I have not seen anything. I guess these others are cowards. Or rather
Backblaze if one of the very few non-cowards that dare naming names.

One of the "nice" side-effects of litigation cultu You do not get
critically neded data anymore, because somebody could object...

I'd be a lot more interested in seeing reliability data of drives
operated within their specs.

One of the advantages of Backblaze's data is that it gives some clues
concerning the longevity of "desktop" drives (which Seagate, for
example, says are intended for 8/5 operation rather than 24/7 operation)
when they are operated 24/7. I don't know about others, but our (home)
computers are hardly ever switched off: they may sleep or hibernate, but
my guess is that the hard disks are spinning a lot longer than 8/5.

Perce

What I took away from the article was that they punished the drives with
heat and vibration. I've found those two factors to be killers.

Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

When any of my systems sleep (suspend to ram) or hibernate (suspend to
disk) the disk gets turned off. Hiberate powers down the computer
completely.

Yay for people who do that. I don't, and I'm certainly not alone.

Ditto with my desktop PCs.
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Backblaze dumps hard drive data
 

One of the "nice" side-effects of litigation cultu You do not get
critically neded data anymore, because somebody could object...

Arno

Many years ago Google announced that they failure data of the drives from
their data centers. They published it in a report but declined to include
make & model of each drive.

"Failure rates are known to be highly correlated with drive models,
manufacturers and vintages... However, in this paper, we do not show a
breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintage due to the
proprietary nature of these data."

Apparently "information to everyone" doesn't include those details.

https://static.googleusercontent.com...en//archive/di
sk_failures.pdf