Disk failure rates in datacenters are falling, says Backblaze
Blocks&Files, Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
Cloud storage and data backup firm Backblaze has published the latest annual failure rates (AFRs) of the disk drives it uses to supply services to customers in its datacenters.
As of the end of Q1 2024, Backblaze was monitoring 279,572 drives in its cloud storage servers, located around the world.
In this group the company identified 275 individual drives which exceeded their manufacturer's temperature specification at some point in their operational life. As such, these drives were removed from AFR calculations.