Interesting, I built a home FreeNAS a few years ago, with Seagate 3TB drives, 7200.12 iirc, and saw 3 of them (out of 12) fail well under 2 years... at this point, I've had so many issues, it's pretty much sitting there. I put 4x4tb WD reds into my older Synology NAS and have been using that without issue.
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#42Always love reading HDD reliability stats from Backblaze -- but this demonstrates one of the reasons why post dating is so important, especially when the information in the post is time-sensitive. Nowhere on the page does it say that the post date is today, unless you click the "latest posts" tab by the author below. I had originally though it was a repost of the many older articles from Backblaze until seeing a refe…
Yev from Backblaze here -> it's an internal debate as to whether we should put dates on everything. It used to be that they were part of the URL (because of the way our blog was designed) but that is no longer the case. We decided to leave them off for a while to see if that made posts more "evergreen", but we definitely see where it can lead to some confusion. We'll keep chatting about it internally, there's likely…
You definitely should put a date on everything. Without a date, your post loses much of its context: http://www.observationalhazard.com/2014/09/put-date-on-your-...
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#43It's a shame single platter 1TB drives were not in that test.
I bet they are the most reliable because of single platter.
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#44Let me start off by saying I am a Backblaze customer and I LOVE these posts and use them as my bible for buying drives for my NAS/Media Server. With that said this is going to sound a little nitpicky but why isn't the publication date anywhere on this article? I've noticed a growing number of blogs not putting the publish date anywhere on the blog page which makes it really hard to know if what they say is still vali…
Backblaze engineer here, the blog folks are trying to fix it right now. I also hate "evergreen" blog posts that don't include a date, I wasn't aware we were doing that. :-(
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#45Love and appreciate that Backblaze presents this data, but there are some obvious issues: comparing the annual failure rate of a pool where avg. age is 1 year to a pool where avg. age is 3 years isn't a great comparison. Rather than annual rates, I'd really prefer to see failure rate after six months, one year, two years, etc. This would make it easier to answer questions like "was drive X always bad? Or just when ne…
Backblaze employee here - we're going to release the raw data in a couple weeks, so everybody can do their own analysis.
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#46I can't load this site because blackblaze only supports 2 TLS ciphers. TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
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#47I love the data, but I'm a little mad that Hitachi had to die as a company and got sold into pieces. I'm not sure if I trust what you guys did, calling the old Hitachi Drives as HGST. Technically, the 3.5" drives from Hitachi got sold to Toshiba. For example, the Toshiba DT01ACA300 is allegedly the same design as the Hitachi 7k3000. In the following link, note that the "HDS723030BLE640" is the model number to the 7k3…
Backblaze employee here - we're also going to release the raw data in a few weeks, which I believe will have every last drive serial number (that uniquely identifies the hard drive in the universe) plus a metric ton of other stuff, so hopefully you can mine that for the info you want.
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#48Let me start off by saying I am a Backblaze customer and I LOVE these posts and use them as my bible for buying drives for my NAS/Media Server. With that said this is going to sound a little nitpicky but why isn't the publication date anywhere on this article? I've noticed a growing number of blogs not putting the publish date anywhere on the blog page which makes it really hard to know if what they say is still vali…
Backblaze engineer here, the blog folks are trying to fix it right now. I also hate "evergreen" blog posts that don't include a date, I wasn't aware we were doing that. :-(
Thanks! You guys rock, I love your posts and product.
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#49Let me start off by saying I am a Backblaze customer and I LOVE these posts and use them as my bible for buying drives for my NAS/Media Server. With that said this is going to sound a little nitpicky but why isn't the publication date anywhere on this article? I've noticed a growing number of blogs not putting the publish date anywhere on the blog page which makes it really hard to know if what they say is still vali…
Backblaze engineer here, the blog folks are trying to fix it right now. I also hate "evergreen" blog posts that don't include a date, I wasn't aware we were doing that. :-(
Backblaze blog folk here -> change is hard :-(
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#50so on a given day, or by week, how many drives do you replace?