Backblaze Q3 2025 Drive Stats Rethinking Failure
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, November 28th, 2025
Every quarter, Drive Stats gives us the numbers. This quarter, it gave us a crisis of meaning. What does it really mean for a hard drive to fail? Is it the moment the lights go out, or the moment we decide they have? Philosophers might call that an ontological gray area. We just call it Q3.
As of June 30, 2025, we had 332,915 drives under management. Of that total, there were 3,970 boot drives and 328,348 data drives. Let's dig into our stats, then talk about the meaning of failure.