Backblaze’s Q417 HDD Reliability Report: Enterprise Premium Still In Question

[Guest]

Backblaze released its Q4 2017 hard drive failure statistics, and they continue to confound on the topic of enterprise-versus-consumer drive reliability.

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[larkspur]

Are they still using rubber bands to secure the drives in their racks?

 

[phobicsq]

Lol... Seagate and failure. Backblaze is way too slow to backup large amounts of data though.

 

[bit_user]

AFR is too coarse. What we really want to see are plots of failure rate vs. drive age. With enough data, it should be possible to extrapolate these mortality curves by fitting their parameters to the known data of newer drives.

And I hope they're not still lumping refurbs together with new drives.