Backblaze Reveals Best And Worst Disk Drives With 2024 Failure Rate Stats
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Backup and cloud storage supplier Backblaze has released its quarterly disk drive stats report.
The company had 301,120 hard drives used to store data as of the end of last year. A chart of the Q4 2024 disk drive annual failure rates (AFR) for various suppliers' drive types shows a pronounced 4.5-plus percent AFR for four drives. These outliers were a 12 TB HGST model (HUH7212ALN604) and three Seagate drives with 10 (ST10000NM0086), 12 (ST12000NM0007), and 14 TB (ST14000NM0138) capacities:...