Backblaze, a cloud storage service provider, operates more than 300,000 drives in its own data centers and regularly publishes failure rates of storage devices by manufacturer and model. In a report ...
Over 317,000 drives analyzed; four models recorded zero failures; high-capacity drives (20TB+) outperform average. Trusted by IT leaders and storage professionals since 2013, this latest installment ...
Cloud storage service provider Backblaze has released data summarizing the failure rates of 312,831 hard disk drives it operates by manufacturer and model in the first quarter of 2025 (January to ...
Backblaze has released its quarterly details on hard drive reliability, including new information on its initial deployment of 8TB hard drives. While SSDs have made marked inroads into the hard drive ...
Statistics on hard drive reliability just released by data-storage company Backblaze would seem to indicate it’s not a good idea to buy a Seagate hard drive. Of the 104,954 drives it uses, Seagate’s ...
A hot potato: For a while now, solid state drives have a become the preferred option over hard disk drives due to a lack of moving components, their inherent magnetic resistance, ability to withstand ...
Over 317,000 drives analyzed; four models recorded zero failures; high-capacity drives (20TB+) outperform average. SAN MATEO, Calif., May 23, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the ...