Since the end of last year BackBlaze company that provides data backup storage "in the cloud" services, has published updated statistics that demonstrate the various manufacturers of hard disk reliability.
The data are interesting simply because it BakcBlaze your clouds using simple hard drives, which consumers typically through retail outlets. Total company uses 38441 hard drives, which are stored in the 100 PB (Petabyte) information.
The latest company BackBlaze statistics reflect the situation in September this year. This was reported to the official blog.
The above diagram shows hard disk failure statistics. Grey color indicates the situation in 2014. In January, while the other colors - the current situation. It appears that Seagate 3 TB capacity storage devices crashing frequently: the percentage of failures
increased from 7% to 12%. Worsened matters, and Western Digital (WD) in the camp: the 3 TB hard drives crash parts increased from 3% to 6%.
Below you can see the crash statistics, taking into account the specific models (refer to a specific make and model, capacity, the total number of drives, the average age and the annual failure rate):
BackBlaze Company representatives note that the use of specific business sectors in the hard drives there is absolutely no economic justification. For example, Enterprise Class 3 TB Seagate hard drives Amazon costs about $ 240, while the regular stationary cylinder 3 TB Seagate - about $ 103rd Both crash statistics is very similar, although the typical hard drives are a bit more reliable, and shows the percentage of failures.
