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Backblaze releases some more flawed HDD failure statistics for Q3

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It's not meant to be a statistical study. It's real life failures of drives used in their datacenters. The data isn't supposed to be clinical. It is neat to see the numbers, even if they don't mean much

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1 hour ago, IGJoe2192 said:

Really makes me worry about my 3TB Seagate drive...

Reread the article. 

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2 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

It's not meant to be a statistical study. It's real life failures of drives used in their datacenters. The data isn't supposed to be clinical. It is neat to see the numbers, even if they don't mean much

But the problem is that if you put it out there, people will read reliability statistics into them. People will make decisions based upon them. Regardless of how many of us try to explain how ridiculous it all is. It's just pure misinformation and only creates unnecessary 'noise'.

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On 11/22/2016 at 11:49 AM, IGJoe2192 said:

Really makes me worry about my 3TB Seagate drive...

Mine's been fine for 4 years so far, although lately I've been on a kick of purchasing $30 refurbished 2TB Hitachi Ultrastars.

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8 hours ago, IGJoe2192 said:

Just because of the sig I am not hitting the reply button.

 

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Seriously though, you shouldn't worry. Like the post said, the results are flawed. 

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On 21.11.2016 at 0:00 AM, TopWargamer said:

I'll play devil's advocate a bit here, although this is a true story. I *have* had a 3TB SeaGate drive die on me before, and it was only over a year old. That should not have happened. So to me, Backblaze's claim has some validity to it. The way I see it, if that stat was true for me, maybe I should look into this some more when buying another hard drive. HGST drives though are pretty darn good though. I replaced my dead SeaGate drive with a 3TB HGST drive and it's been running strong for about a year now.

 

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My SeaGate 1TB drive I used in my original PC build is still going strong though. That PC was built like 3 or 4 years ago...? Something like that. I even passed it onto my friend, and it's still working fine for him.
 

 

Personal experience has no validity in statistics and actual reliability of a product.

 

Realisticly your bad experience is just an unfortunate coincidence.

 

But if you feel better and more confident in buying HGST drives go for it. :)

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5 hours ago, Castdeath97 said:

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Seriously though, you shouldn't worry. Like the post said, the results are flawed. 

TBH it doesn't get a lot of use. So there isn't anything really to worry about.

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On 11/21/2016 at 4:43 AM, TheRandomness said:

When will they learn you can't rely on a consumer drive in a datacenter...

You can though, it just depends of the usecase, and if your mitigate/migrate the risk.

 

The same risks are still present in enterprise disks, just reduced. If your mitigate/remediation process is through the roof, then why pay the extra for a risk you have effectivly nullified? I.e. replacing tapes in a Tape library, Just build a bigger library and throw a bunch of spares at it . Now imagine you have that for HDD's (or just use a cheap intern), one fails and its thrown out of the array, replace and rebuilt automatically, throw in a nice file/block level redundancy or even some geo-redundancy.

 

If your doing what 45 Drives does, then yeah, your correct. In the end it comes down scale and requirements of the system.

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