Backblaze Releases Hard Drive Stats for 2017, HGST Most Reliable

If a drive model has a failure rate of 0%, it means there were no drive failures of that model during Q4 2017. There were 62 drives (91,305 ...

All failed when over 90% capacity, and all failures were bad blocks / excessive reallocation (that means the drives were still readable, but ...

The failure rate listed is for just Q4 2017. If a drive model has a failure rate of 0%, it means there were no drive failures of that model ...

Backblaze recently published their yearly stats for hard drive failures for 2017. ... failure rate of more than 3%. For more stats from ...

“Drive Failures” is the total number of drives that make up “Drive Count” that failed in Q4. “Annualized Failure Rate” (AFR) is “Drive Failures” ...

Below are the lifetime hard drive failure statistics for the hard ... 4.13 — The average number of hard drives that have failed each day in 2017.

The count of retries of each spin start attempt after the initial failure. ▫ Only found in some HGST and. Toshiba drives. Failed Drives -. 0.07%.

HGST's 8TB hard drive had a 0 percent failure rate over 2016 and 2017, whereas 4.93 percent of them failed in 2015. However, only 45 of these ...

The failure error rate by HDD model obtained from 2015 to 2017 is as follows. The error rate of Seagate's ST 6000 DX000 and Western Digital  ...