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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016"
"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 ? Lynn |
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"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 |
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016"
On 1/31/2017 2:39 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
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 BTW, that was sarcasm on my part. I buy 5 to 10 new hard drives and SSDs a year. The biggest SSD that I have bought is 480 GB and I just bought an 8 TB WD external drive for our offsite LAN rotating backup. Lynn |
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"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 ? The different failure rates for the Seagate ST4000DM000 and ST4000DX000 are interesting. The former are the "desktop" drives, while the latter *seem to be* the ones that are found in the external drive units; t least that's the only "hit" I find for that model number when I search. Are they really different? Do "flaky" 4TB drives (the ones that barely pass testing) get labeled as ST4000DX000 and put in the external cases (where they're probably going to get knocked around, and warranty replacement can be denied on account of that), and the good ones get labeled as ST4000DM000? What is the model number on the 4TB drives that are packaged as "retail" units, I wonder? Not the model number on the package. I bought 6TB "retail" Seagates. The model number on the package was STBD6000100, but the drives themselves are ST6000DX000. Perce |
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016"
Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
The different failure rates for the Seagate ST4000DM000 and ST4000DX000 are interesting. There's a significant difference in average age between Backblaze's DM and DX drives. It looks like they've got a dwindling number of older DX drives, clearly reaching end of life, and a huge number of younger DMs. As the DMs approach the age of their remaining DXs, their failure rate should rise. |
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