Backblaze Publishes Findings on Consumer Hard Drive Longevity

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[Kilerbomb]

Interesting.

[cDNA]

Very interesting read, thanks for posting. I think my HDD is still safe for about a year before the rate gets higher.

[rhyseyness]

This is really interesting.

I expected the bathtub style curve, but expected the increasing rate of faliures to be occuring more like 2 years in.

This really says something about the engineering going into hard drive manufacture.

A magnetic head floating 2nm above a platter rotating at 5000rpm+, operating 24/7 (at least 2628000000 revolutions of that disk per year).

The fact that it lasts 4 hours is impressive, yet alone 4 years!

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[stevv]

Somewhere in an older post they also said that heat is a low factor for failure for them.  They even decided to reduce fan usage.

[Kev]

This lines up with my experince almost to a T except for a seagate hard drive I had that lasted 7 years.

[qwertywarrior]

i saw this at extremetech yesterday

 

but i hate the fact that when those big companies publish hard drive failure info

they NEVER tell us what drives are better and what are worse

[That Norwegian Guy]

i saw this at extremetech yesterday

 

but i hate the fact that when those big companies publish hard drive failure info

they NEVER tell us what drives are better and what are worse

 

They could simply have had an exclusive supply contract with one of the manufacturers.

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