backblaze has released their first stats

Looking at a chart of annualized failure rates over time and by manufacturer, it might appear that much of the overall rise over the past year has been driven by Seagate and Toshiba models.

Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age.Backblaze thinks SSDs are more reliable than hard drives.New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage Backblaze, a cloud storage provider has recently released their latest annual report on the performance of their 202,759 hard disks in operation.Barge off: Nautilus to bring floating datacenters to two new sites in US, France In brief: In its latest quarterly HDD reliability stats for 2019, cloud storage provider Backblaze has released figures that seem to continue the trend of bigger drives being better.In comparison, the cumulative AFR (during lifetime) for the HDDs used was 1.40 (according to the 2021 Drive Statistics report). This places each cohort at very different points in their lifecycle. The HDDs are, on average, more than three years older than the SSDs. Basically, the timelines for the average age of the SSDs and HDDs don’t overlap very much. This increase as a drive model ages follows the bathtub curve, whereby a typical drive can be expected to exhibit a rash of early failures, followed by a period when there are relatively few, followed by an uptick once more as all the drives approach the end of their lives and wear out. The cumulative AFR was 1.07 for all SSD drives in the fourth quarter of 2021. The oldest SSD drives are about 33 months old and the youngest HDD drives are 27 months old.

Backblaze has released their first stats