BackBlaze Q1 2016 results are in!

[Elixer]

Backblaze's numbers show that HGST continues to be the reliability champion of all of its disks in its pool. All of the service's HGST drives had failure rates of less than 2%. That result continues HGST's "most reliable" streak, a run that's extended for as long as Backblaze has been releasing data. Western Digital drives knocked Seagate's off the podium for highest failure rate overall. All told, though, drives from every vendor had a lower failure rate this quarter than in the recent past. Each company other than HGST has one disk model that stands out as particularly failure-prone.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

Sadly, this does follow my own experiences with WD drives, especially the red drives.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Glad I went for Hitachi 7K2000 retail-boxed drives from MC some time ago when I built my server. I think that they turned out to be 7K3000 drives inside the boxes.

Edit: I think that either Newegg or ebay had some Hitachi 7K3000 UltraStar 2TB *refurb* drives for like $35 recently. I think it was a front-page ebay deal. There's a FW thread about them too.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Ebay. Still going on but not many left.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Ult...-64MB-cache-Internal-Hard-Drive-/262424239086
Saw this report and rolled the dice on one just to archive some old stuff I should probably just delete anyway. But I might need all these game patches going back to 1999 or so someday, right?

 

[Elixer]

Ebay. Still going on but not many left.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-Ult...-64MB-cache-Internal-Hard-Drive-/262424239086
Saw this report and rolled the dice on one just to archive some old stuff I should probably just delete anyway. But I might need all these game patches going back to 1999 or so someday, right?

Those are refurbs, so, those are the ones that BackBlaze sent back.

 

[nerp]

Wow. Seagate is finally fixing their crap. WD getting worse. HGST the gold standard as always. Toshiba a reliable alternative.

 

[nanaki333]

nice! i switched to HGST almost exclusively awhile ago just based on personal experience. glad to see it's not just me and is a fact.

 

[master_shake_]

go go toshiba!

my number one go to source for drives!