279,572 HDDs In Data Center Tested
StorageNewsletter.com, Monday, May 6th, 2024
Most reliable units from Seagate, then HGST, Toshiba and WD
As of the end of 1Q24, Backblaze was monitoring 283,851 hard drives and SSDs in our cloud storage servers located in our data centers around the world. We removed from this analysis 4,279 boot drives, consisting of 3,307 SSDs and 972 hard drives. This leaves us with 279,572 hard drives under management to examine for this report. We'll review their annualized failure rates (AFRs) as of 1Q24, and we'll dig into the average age of drive failure by model, drive size, and more. Along the way, we'll share our observations and insights on the data presented and, as always, we look forward to you doing the same in the comments section at the end of the post.