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.
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.
After couple failed hard disks in my old NVR, I’ve come to realize heat is the biggest enemy of hard disks. The NVR had to provide power to the POE cameras, ran video transcoding, and constantly writing to the disk. It generated a lot of heat. The disks were probably warped due to the heat and the disk heads crashed onto the surface, causing data loss. For my new NVR, the POE power supply is separated out to a powere…
That seems like a very poor chassis design on the part of the NVR manufacturer. The average modern 3.5" high capacity HDD doesn't generate that much heat. Even 'datacenter' HGST drives average around 5.5W and will top out at 7.8W TDP under maximum stress. Designing a case that uses relatively low rpm, quiet, 120 or 140mm 12VDC fans to pull air through it and cool six or eight hard drives isn't that difficult. In a mi…
In a combination of heat, the POE cameras draw quite a bit of power, the video transcoding, and then the constant disk writes, all in a small slim case. It ran very hot during summer.
From that table I understand that WD are the most reliable nowadays. Especially 16TB models. Is my understanding correct?
It's a wash. Modern mechanical HDDs are so reliable that the vendor basically doesn't matter. Especially if you stick with 'Enterprise'-tier drives (preferably with a SAS interface), you should be good. Aside from some mishaps (that don't necessarily impact reliability) with vendors failing to disclose the HAMR nature of some consumer HDDs, I don't think there have been any truly disastrous series in the past 10-15 y…
I don't think there have been any truly disastrous series in the past 10-15 years or so
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?
This is called "content marketing" and there are usually at least a handful of them on the HN front page at any given time. 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.
It's worth noting that this type of marketing can also improves page rankings.
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?
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?
A company called TechEmpower used to run periodic web framework benchmarks and share out the results using nice dashboard. Not sure why they stopped doing these. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s... Edit: Adding a shoutout to the iFixIt teardowns that are also quite informative content: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown Edit 2: Also Lumafield CT scans: https://www.scanofthemonth.com/