Backblaze Sees Drive Failure Rates Tick Up, Asks If AI Can Help
The Register, Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime
Backblaze has issued the latest report detailing failure rates for the multitude of drives that power its storage and backup services, and is looking at recent trends in the figures as well as considering whether AI might lower those failure rates.
As a storage service provider, Backblaze monitors an entire fleet of drives of varying makes and models in its datacenters. Discounting boot devices, this amounted to 284,876 hard drives at the end of calendar Q2 2024.