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Old January 31st 17, 08:39 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Percival P. Cassidy
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Default "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016"

On 01/31/2017 01:11 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-...rk-stats-2016/

More hard drive stats than I have ever seen. Th4 4th quarter 2016 table
covers 79,939 drives.

The lesson is, don't buy hard drives as they are only going to fail ?


SSDs will fail too, except perhaps more slowly -- and they will cost a
lot more.

Perce