…Enough Hard Drive Stats? We’ll be presenting the webinar “Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017” on Thursday February 9, 2018 at 10:00 Pacific time. The webinar will dig deeper into the quarterly, yearly, and lifetime hard drive stats and include the annual and lifetime stats by drive size and manufacturer. You will need to subscribe to the Backblaze BrightTALK channel…

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…20-pod Backblaze Vault would have 14.4 petabytes of raw storage. Better Late Than Never Sorry for being a bit late with the hard drive stats report this quarter. We were ready to go last week, then this happened. Some folks here thought that was more important than our Q2 Hard Drive Stats. Go figure. Drive Stats at the Storage Developers…

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…case, the improved boot up speed wasn’t worth the SSD cost, but it did add 10 new columns to the hard drive stats data. Speaking of hard drive stats data, the complete data set used to create the information used in this review is available on our Hard Drive Test Data page. You can download and use this data for…

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…2016 the number of 8 TB drives rose to 8,765 with 48 failures and an annualized failure rate of 1.6%. The “1.0TB” drives were 5+ years old on average when they were retired. There are only 45 of the “5.0TB” drives in operation. Can’t Get Enough Hard Drive Stats? We’ll be presenting the webinar “Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016”…

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…use RAID-6, our Backblaze Vaults use our own open-sourced implementation of Reed-Solomon erasure coding instead. Both techniques have a concept of a drive not syncing or staying synced with the other member drives in its group A different look at Hard Drive Stats We publish the hard drive stats data on our website with the Q1 2016 results there as…

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…drives and keep reporting our findings. If you’d like to hear more about our Hard Drive Stats, Backblaze will be presenting at the 33rd International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2017) being held at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara California from May 15th – 19th. The conference will dedicate five days to computer-storage technology, including a…

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…based on data from April 2013 through September 2016 for all data drive models with active drives as of September 30, 2016. Hard drive stats webinar: Join Us! Want more details on our Q3 drive stats? View the webinar below in the Backblaze BrightTALK channel. You will need to subscribe to the Backblaze channel to view the webinar, but you’ll…

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