Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2023

Saw this posted on !technology and thought ideal to crosspost here too

At the end of Q2 2023, Backblaze was monitoring 245,757 hard drives and SSDs in our data centers around the world. Of that number, 4,460 are boot drives, with 3,144 being SSDs and 1,316 being HDDs.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4d022166-e05b-4601-941f-7b05371e2305.jpeg

This graph looks at the annual failure rate for drives more than 5 years old. The higher capacity ones look a little bit concerning IMO. This is discussed within a short section later on in the blog post.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6f6c80c8-0867-4d17-bb14-cf852355f9e2.jpeg

kalleboo,

Wow those Seagate 14 TB numbers look pretty terrible (even ignoring the model with a tiny sample size), I guess I’m lucky that Toshiba drives are the cheapest here so that what we have the most of

cooopsspace,

It’s a shame that as large capacities are so expensive for many the stats just don’t seem as relevant to me.

I used to be able to point to the table and say “these are the drives I own” and now it’s “these are the drives I might own one day”.

lemann,

Yepp. Personally I’m using multiple 6TBs at the moment - my next jump would have been replacing those with 10/12 TB or larger, but these stats are making me reconsider.

Replacements would get expensive fast IMO, especially if they’re failing just outside the warranty period like Backblaze’s ones

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