284,386 HDDs And 39 Models Examined
StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, August 8th, 2024
As of the end of 2Q24, Backblaze was monitoring 288,665 HDDs and SSDs in its cloud storage servers located in its data centers around the world. It removed from this analysis 3,789 boot drives, consisting of 2,923 SSDs and 866 HDDs.
This leaves us with 284,876 HDDs under management to review for this report. We'll review the AFRs for 2Q24 and the lifetime AFRs of the qualifying drive models, and we'll also drive age vs. failure rates over time.
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.