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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:
>
>>> "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?
>
> Now that I have looked at Backblaze's report, I see that the 3TB Seagates 
> that they have now quit using were *really* bad: 23.86% failure rate; and 
> some others were not good either.
>
> It's interesting that the HGST figures are significantly better than the 
> WDC figures, even though HGST is now owned by WDC.
>
> It's also interesting that the 6TB Seagates they are using at present are 
> the ST6000DX001, which are what I found in "retail" STBD6000100 packages, 
> whereas the only "bare" Seagate 6TB Desktop drives are ST6000DM001.* Is 
> there a material difference between them? (In many other capacities the 
> STn00DXnnn drives are SSHD models, but there is no indication that the 6TB 
> ones are SSHD -- just "spinning rust.")
>
> *I have seen comments on Amazon from people who bought "bare" ST6000DX001 
> drives and then found that the Seagate warranty check indicates that they 
> were originally sold as component parts of some other unit -- presumably 
> an external drive that has been sold without its case and USB adapter. Why 
> are external drives (with case and USB adapter) often cheaper than the 
> same ones sold as "internal"?

Presumably because they are sold in rather
higher volume by operations like Amazon. 

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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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