If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
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#12If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
No.... I take it back, I am a fool! They do publish the stats!!
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...
My bad!!
Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
#13If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
Like this? https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-...
My first Facepalm!! For 2024!!
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#14If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
No.... I take it back, I am a fool! They do publish the stats!! https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-... My bad!!
One thing for sure though, these stats have confirmed my disappointment with Seagate all these years. Utter garbage!
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#15Is there any information what lead to Backblaze to stop making their own hardware and going with COTS?
My sense is that storage server prices have had to come down to compete with both cloud (like S3 archival tiers) and roll-your-own solutions. The former are relatively recent and the latter have become more feasible as companies—Backblaze among them—have open sourced well-engineered designs. Storage server margin used to be insane, over 80% after COGS back in the 00s and only slightly less last decade, and there's still room to compete.
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#16If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
No.... I take it back, I am a fool! They do publish the stats!! https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-... My bad!!
Yep, I never buy a drive for myself or recommend to other without having first looked the their stats.
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#17I love these so I'm really sad to say this: What's missing is an AFR based on deployed time in increments, not total time. For example: there should be a sliding window (or a histogram) relating to AFR after deployment for a time frame. IE: AFR between 0-300 days, AFR between 301-600 days, AFR between 601-900 days (etc). Otherwise we're looking at failures historically for the entire period, which might hide a spat o…
Backblaze's SSD bathtub curve shows higher failure rates 3yr, with a sweet spot around 1.5yr where the failure rate is 4-5 times lower. -
https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/09/26/bathtub.jpg
The HDD afr is under 2% for the first 3.5 years. Due to factory testing, 'the bathtub now has no left side, which makes it hard to take a bath'. https://i.gzn.jp/img/2021/12/21/black-blaze-how-long-disk-dr...
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#18I really wished Backblaze B2 worked better to be a real alternative to S3. The pricing is a middle finger to AWS and other providers.
However, we were having 1 outage per month with B2, and in the middle of 2023 we decided to go back to AWS and only use S3 for replication.
We still monitor both services simultaneously (S3 and B2), and every other month we are still having an episode where the latency rises from 15ms to something like 25 seconds for each write/read operation.
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#19If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
No.... I take it back, I am a fool! They do publish the stats!! https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-... My bad!!
They've been publishing these stats for years and years now, too. It's a wealth of data they've provided and has helped me pick the dozens of drives I've ordered over the years
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#20Does anybody know which Dell product they use? Dell also has JBOD enclosures like Powervault MD2460