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Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015"

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"Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote in message 
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> On 02/16/2016 04:07 PM, pamela wrote:
>
>> On 20:31  16 Feb 2016, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015"
>>>      https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-2015
>>>      /
>>>
>>> "By the end of 2015, the Backblaze datacenter had 56,224
>>> spinning hard drives containing customer data. These hard drives
>>> reside in 1,249 Backblaze Storage Pods. By comparison 2015 began
>>> with 39,690 drives running in 882 Storage Pods. We added 65
>>> Petabytes of storage in 2015 give or take a Petabyte or two. Not
>>> only was 2015 a year of growth, it was also a year of drive
>>> upgrades and replacements."
>>>
>>> Uh oh, the WDC 2 TB and 3 TB drive failure rate is climbing.
>>> And the WDC 6 TB is scary also.
>
>> Wasn't Seagate doing badly not long ago at Backblaze?
>
> The 3TB Seagates were bad; the other capacities were much better. But the 
> design of the 3TB ones*might* have improved since.
>
> I have a bunch of 2TB "Desktop" Seagates running 24/7 in a FreeNAS 
> machine. One -- an older model that came with a 5-year warranty -- 
> failed and was replaced by a newer model (one that normally comes with 
> only a 2-year warranty but carried the remainder of the original 5-year 
> warranty). One of the newer models (out of warranty) showed a read error 
> but was "fixed" by SeaTools and now, even after an extensive workout (HD 
> Sentinel PRO's 34-hour read, write, read), shows no errors.
>
> If you read the NewEgg reviews, you will find that for *every* brand of 
> hard disk there are people who will never buy one of that manufacturer's 
> products again.

There is a big difference in the 1 star review percentages with
Hitachi/HGST and the rest tho. But quite low total number of
drives with Newegg. Not very visible on Amazon for some reason. 

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"Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-02-16 14:31 -0600
  Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-02-16 21:07 +0000
    Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 21:52 +0800
      Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" DevilsPGD <boogabooga@crazyhat.net> - 2016-02-17 17:48 -0800
        Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 19:27 +0800
          Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" DevilsPGD <boogabooga@crazyhat.net> - 2016-02-26 13:04 -0800
      Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 13:05 +1100
        Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" Sam <newsgroup2003@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 19:53 -0700
          Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 19:53 +1100
    Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2016-02-17 10:10 -0500
      Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 13:08 +1100
    Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2016-02-17 11:01 -0500
      Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 13:10 +1100
  Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" pedro1492@lycos.com - 2016-03-18 19:07 -0700
    Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 06:56 +1100

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