Hard Drive Failure Stats for Q3 2016

[ondooy]

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/hard-drive-failure-stats-for-q3-2016.html

Backblaze has releases a new listing of HDD failure rates for Q3 2016. They replaced a lot of 3TB with 8TB HDDs and had pretty good results it seems.

For Q3 2016 we have 67,642 drives, or 1,171 fewer hard drives. Stop, put down that Twitter account, Backblaze is not shrinking. In fact, we’re growing very nicely and are approaching 300 petabytes of data under our management. We have fewer drives because over the last quarter we swapped out more than 3,500 2 terabyte (TB) HGST and WDC hard drives for 2,400 8 TB Seagate drives. So we have fewer drives, but more data. Lots more data! We’ll get into the specifics a little later on, but first, let’s take a look at our Q3 2016 drive stats.

 

[AlvinDj]

HGST FTW!

 

[ZrE0_Cha0s]

damn toshiba also like not bad. low or no drive failure

 

[AlvinDj]

damn toshiba also like not bad. low or no drive failure

If you notice the number of Toshiba "drive count", all less than 100-200pcs only..

And "drive days" are at bare minimum.. Cannot really conclude..

If within 100-200pcs + such short period of duration, got drive failure then sibei jialat liao..

 

[jtjt00]

WD Red continues to fare poorly.

 

[Mugenpower78]

Toshiba really jialat based on the overall count. HGST best but then again they are the same hdd

 

[Krabs.]

their setup is vastly different from consumer (mostly 1 drive)

the environment they run are a dozen drives packed together 1cm apart .... more heat and vibration
and the data access is also more frequent than consumer usage pattern

 

[Buzztiger]

Toshiba 3TB annualized failure rate is 4.2%. Damn it, I thought of getting the 3TB.