Backblaze Sees Uptick In 8 And 10TB Drive Failures
Blocks&Files, Thursday, August 3,2023
Cloud storage provider BackBlaze has reported an increase in annual failure rates for its 8TB and 10TB disk drives.
The company currently maintains a population of 241,297 disk drives and diligently tracks their failure rates by parameters such as capacity, model type, and manufacturer. In addition to this, BackBlaze publishes quarterly and lifetime annualized failure rate (AFR) statistics each quarter.
In the second quarter of 2023, the firm reported an average AFR of 2.28 percent, a noticeable increase from 1.54 percent in Q1 2023. Upon further analysis of the AFRs by drive capacity, the company identified that the 8TB and 10TB capacities experienced particularly high quarterly AFRs, with the 10TB drives topping the list.