Blackblaze is one of the most respected services in Storage industry, they've kept gaining my respect even after I launched my own cloud storage solution.
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
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#22It's not a best practice, but the last 10 years I've run my home server with a smaller faster drive for the OS and a single larger disk for bulk storage that I choose using Backblaze Drive Stats. None of have failed yet (fingers-crossed). I really trust their methodology and it's an extremely valuable resource for me as a consumer. My most recent drive is a WDC WUH722222ALE6L4 22TiB, and looking at the stats (albeit…
No RAID 0 for the bulk storage? What’s your disaster plan?
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#23Google sells 2TB of space on Google drive for $10/month. I'm looking to move my data elsewhere.
Can anyone recommend a European based alternative with a roughly similar cost?
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#24I 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.
What models? There's a big difference between the cheapest and the more pro models.
That said, my four 2Tb Barracudas still going fine after many years (10+). One failed, replaced with a green. Big mistake, that failed quickly and I went back to standard Barracudas.
They don't get used intensely though.
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
#25It's not a best practice, but the last 10 years I've run my home server with a smaller faster drive for the OS and a single larger disk for bulk storage that I choose using Backblaze Drive Stats. None of have failed yet (fingers-crossed). I really trust their methodology and it's an extremely valuable resource for me as a consumer. My most recent drive is a WDC WUH722222ALE6L4 22TiB, and looking at the stats (albeit…
I'm sure you're aware but consider putting another drive in for some flavor of RAID, it's a lot easier to rebuild a RAID than to rebuild data usually!
Edit: By "some flavor" I mean hardware or software.
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#26> 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 almost cannot believe I've been reading these for 10 years now.
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#27I wish there was a way to underspin (RPM) some of these drives to lower noise for non-datacenter use - the quest for the Largest "Quiet" drive - is a hard one. It would be cool if these could downshift into <5000RPM mode and run much quieter.
I wonder if that's even technically possible these days. Given the fact that the heads have to float on the moving air (or helium) produced by the spinning platter, coupled with modern data densities probably making the float distance tolerance quite small, there might be a very narrow band of rotation speeds that the heads require to correctly operate.
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#28I 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.
This will probably jinx me, but I've had so many drives, many purchased on the cheap from Fry's Black Friday sales when I was a poor university student, and the two drives I've ever had fail since I started buying over twenty years ago were
1. catastrophic flood in my apartment when drive was on the ground
2. a drive in an external enclosure on the ground that I kicked by mistake while it was spinning
I'm glad I've never had y'all's problems.
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
#29Google sells 2TB of space on Google drive for $10/month. I'm looking to move my data elsewhere. Can anyone recommend a European based alternative with a roughly similar cost?
Hetzner!
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
#30Google sells 2TB of space on Google drive for $10/month. I'm looking to move my data elsewhere. Can anyone recommend a European based alternative with a roughly similar cost?
OneDrive space (through MS365 single or family licence) works out much cheaper in my country. I'm sure in the EU it is GDPR-compliant.
YMMV but OneDrive has been improving a lot. Their web photos browsing is comparable to Google Photos these days.