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The usefulness of backblaze hard drive reports to consumers 2017-02-01 04:04:13 Post No. 58750562
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The usefulness of backblaze hard drive reports to consumers
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2017-02-01 04:04:13
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Hey folks, periodically backblaze will release a blog post detailing the failure rates of the hard drives they use in their data centers, listed by manufacturer and specific drive types. In case you missed yesterday's blog post, here it is: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-2016/
In the past I felt that these reports were useful for deciding which drive to purchase for my own needs. However, I'm a consumer and as such I don't put nearly the stress on the drives that an enterprise organization does. The hard drives in my PC and the ones I'll be putting in the NAS I build later in the month will be very lightly used, comparably. Does this difference in usage make those reports useless to a consumer?
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No one really knows, but I would assume that if a certain model has a low death rate in high stress environment it would also be good even if used more lightly.
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>>58750693
inb4 this logical conclusion is disputed without counterargument by Seagate fanbois.
>why the hell are there HDD hardware fanboys in the first place
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>>58750764
Western Digital still has higher failure rates than Seagate.
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>>58750764
>races manufacturers
>"B..b..but I'm not a fanboi, right?"
Seagate's 1.5TB drives were defective, and their ST2000DM001 and ST3000DM001 were for quite a while post-flood. Yet the ST1000DM003 will go down in history as the best 1TB drive ever manufactured.
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>>58751822
fuck seagate 1.5 tbs, went through 6 rmas with that.
>>58750562
Here is my observation, barring the outliers like the entire industry's 1.5tb line that almost universally had fail rates above 20% you have 3 modes of failure
1) the 3 month burn in, this is where anything that will go wrong does,
2) you knock the drive around and fuck the alignment up
3) wear and tear, assume consumer drives are made for about 4 hours of use a day
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