If you're curious about which hard drives are the most reliable right now, a new report from Backblaze might give you all the answers.
The cloud storage and data backup company regularly tests the reliability of hard drives and examined just over 000 different drives for its XNUMX report.
Of each and every drive tested, the oldest also appear to be the most reliable, with the sixTb Seagate ST6000DX000 drive model showing an average age of eighty-four months, plus annualized failure rate (AFR) as well. ) lower than 0,11. %
New records go well
Overall, Backblaze found AFRs in each and every area at 0,93%, just slightly more than last year's XNUMX%. Still in this way, it is a good sign, because now the fall in two thousand and twenty, from one point eighty-three% of the previous year, was not an anomaly.
The lifetime AFR (not to be confused with the annual failure rate, where the number of units remains the same for each model throughout the analysis period) is now fourteen percent, compared to one with fifty-four percent a year ago and one hundred sixty-two percent a couple of years ago.
The new records also do partially well. The WDC 721816Tb drive model WUH6ALE0L08, like the Toshiba 16Tb drive MG0,14ACA0,91TE (both added last year), have an AFR of XNUMX% and XNUMX%, respectively.
The report also noted that the Seagate ST14000NM0138 XNUMXTB drive was performing partially poorly in its Dell storage servers, until its firmware was updated. After the update, the reliability of the drive has improved significantly.
In XNUMX, the company added a total of forty-four hundred and sixty new hard drives, and by the end of the year, it managed a total of two hundred and six thousand, nine hundred and twenty-eight drives. With three thousand seven hundred and sixty boot disks, the company ended up scanning precisely two hundred and three hundred and sixty eight data disks.
Via: ZDNet