Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: "Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015" Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:08:25 +1100 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4mHR/3EBV4g1yvFWVG9M4gSp1ekN2GPBnNQyeA67uCv+SZYYc= Cancel-Lock: sha1:A2ZbhJeCBX8BU+wyMh+AYSyIY5g= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:6812 "Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message news:dijgrvFg4s8U1@mid.individual.net... > 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.