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Every year, this seems like great brand promotion for Backblaze, to technical prospective customers, and a nice service to the field. What are some other examples from other companies of this, besides open source code?
I had five Seagates fail in my Synology NAS in less than a year. Somebody suggested it was a "bad" firmware on that model, but I switched to WD and haven't had a single failure since.
I never had problems with Seagate Exos or WD Red or even the WD shucked White Reds.
It’s interesting how different the experiences are, some swear by a specific brand.
My most recent drive is a WDC WUH722222ALE6L4 22TiB, and looking at the stats (albeit only a few months of data), and overall trend of WDC, in this report gives me peace of mind that it should be fine for the next few years until it's time for the cycle to repeat.
I'm basically mulling between going as-is to SSDs in a similar 5x4TB configuration, or just going for 20TB hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration and a pair of 4TB SATA SSDs in a RAID 1 for use cases that need better-than-HDD performance.
These figures indicate Seagate is improving in reliability, which might be worth considering this time given WD's actions in the time since my last purchase, but on the other hand I'd basically sworn off Seagate after a wave of drives in the mid-2010s with a near 100% failure rate within 5 years.
> I have been authoring the various Drive Stats reports for the past ten years and this will be my last one. I am retiring, or perhaps in Drive Stats vernacular, it would be “migrating.” Thank you for all these reports over the years.
I had five Seagates fail in my Synology NAS in less than a year. Somebody suggested it was a "bad" firmware on that model, but I switched to WD and haven't had a single failure since.
Incompatibilities between the drive firmware and the device they're in can cause problems.
Subtle harmonic issues with how the drives are mounted, which might be fine for some drives and disastrous for others.
I've always found the best strategy with mechanical hard drives is to have various brands and models in the same device on RAID.
I had five Seagates fail in my Synology NAS in less than a year. Somebody suggested it was a "bad" firmware on that model, but I switched to WD and haven't had a single failure since.
Every year, this seems like great brand promotion for Backblaze, to technical prospective customers, and a nice service to the field. What are some other examples from other companies of this, besides open source code?
Although I will say that the BackBlaze drive stats articles are a much higher effort and standard of quality than you typically see for this tactic.
Every year, this seems like great brand promotion for Backblaze, to technical prospective customers, and a nice service to the field. What are some other examples from other companies of this, besides open source code?