I'm really interested to see how those high capacity Helium-filled drives hold up over time. (i.e. I've been wondering how much leakage is going to be a problem)
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
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#12I’m just glad it works, I’m a Backblaze customer:)
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#13I’m just glad it works, I’m a Backblaze customer:)
Yev from Backblaze -> as an employee, I'm glad it works too :D
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#15Does Backblaze have any SMR drives in use, or do you have plans to start using them? Would be really interesting to see if these exhibit a worse failure rate.
Anyway, thanks for sharing this data, I really like the openness.
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#16I'm really interested to see how those high capacity Helium-filled drives hold up over time. (i.e. I've been wondering how much leakage is going to be a problem)
Yev here -> that info should be in the SMART stats, so if you see a dip, checking there will give you a lot more context (though we'd likely call that out in our blog).
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#17my prediction: all four items in the list of predictions will happen.
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#18Does Backblaze have any SMR drives in use, or do you have plans to start using them? Would be really interesting to see if these exhibit a worse failure rate. Anyway, thanks for sharing this data, I really like the openness.
Yev here -> No SMR drives in production at this point in time!
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#19I've enjoyed the Backblaze hard drive failure rate posts for years, but never realized they publish the underlying data! https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html (scroll down) It looks quite detailed--a daily snapshot of all of the SMART values for each individual hard drive.
I don’t know why but every time I read one I’m never disappointed. I find the data fascinating. I wish more companies would give information like this but on memory, cpus etc also.
You know, I'll bet Backblaze goes through lots of memory, cpus, etc, too. Yev? :)
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#20As someone who runs a tiny archiving operation (about 70 hard drives) I find these stats invaluable and am so grateful to you for publishing them! You make it a lot easier to navigate an expensive and intimidating world of hardware options.