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Once upon a midnight dreary, as I typed another query<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeking many a quaint and curious fact of hidden Drive Stats lore\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I waited, time advancing, suddenly the stats came dancing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lines of empty datasets; the database had nothing more<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs that right?\u201d I muttered, \u201cThe database had nothing more\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So those drives, I must explore.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ah, distinctly I remember, it was just past this September<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I requested failure rates of Seagate drives with terabytes of four<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eagerly I typed the query, even though my eyes were bleary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The count of Seagate fours was eerie, eerie; there was nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sad and certain count screamed like it never had before;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Seagate drives with terabytes of four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presently I checked the tables, the data must be full of fables;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are missing rows, I\u2019m certain, and files waiting to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality I kept dismissing, the Seagate data must be missing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With hours gone to data fishing, the facts shook me to the core;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spinning life is over for our Seagate drives with terabytes of four\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those Seagate drives are nevermore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(My apologies to Edgar Allen Poe<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly, we will publish the Q3 2024 Backblaze Drive Stats report, and an old faithful will be missing from the tables, the 4TB Seagate drive model ST4000DM000. This drive model has graced our Drive Stats charts and tables since the very first Drive Stats report, and it would be a ghastly mistake if we let the drive slip into the afterlife unnoticed. So on this All Hallows\u2019 Eve, it\u2019s only fitting we say nevermore to these Seagate drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first 45 of these Seagate 4TB drives were installed in a 45-drive Backblaze Storage Pod<\/a> in May 2013. That was before 60-drive Storage Pods, Backblaze Vaults<\/a>, and even Backblaze B2<\/a>. Over the next two years, thousands of new Seagate 4TB drives were added each quarter, and by Q3 2016, there were 34,744 spinning souls in service. That represented more than 50% of all the drives in service at the time\u2014a howling success that has not been duplicated by any other drive model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, that didn\u2019t last as the first wave of 8TB drives arrived in mid-2016 and with that, no additional 4TB Seagate drives were procured. Over time, as 4TB Seagate drives met their maker, the count decreased, and when Storage Pods containing these drives started being phased out in 2018, the count dropped faster. The final nail in the coffin came when, in 2023, our CVT drive migration system<\/a> became fixated on the replacement of all the remaining 4TB Seagate drives, and here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for those intrepid 45 original drives installed in May 2013, they were not around at the end. They were unceremoniously replaced in a Storage Pod upgrade back in 2017. A few were resurrected as drive replacements, but today they only exist in the spirit world, having died or been replaced by 2020. Still many other 4TB Seagate drives have lived long happy lives<\/a>, with nearly 100 exceeding 100 months of service (8.4 years) before being sent to their final resting place by the CVT reaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so it is time; we shall gather in a circle, cross our arms and hold hands and chant \u201cour Seagate drives\u2026with terabytes of four\u2026are nevermore!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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