[BackBlaze's Q3 2017 results] Seagate's 10TB+ HDs might actually be good?

[Elixer]

Yes, very low sample size, but, it could signal that Seagate might be producing better HDs.

HGST still is king though.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2017/

 

[crashtech]

It's still early, right? But looking good so far.

 

[cbn]

It's still early, right? But looking good so far.

Well, yeah.....those 1200 ST10000NM0086 drives were installed as unit (aka a vault) about ~10 days before the end of Q3 (according to the chart in the opening post).

With that mentioned, I am glad to see their were no immediate failures.

I am also glad to see ST6000DX000 and ST8000DM002 drives are doing well. (Both these models are entry level consumer drives).

P.S. I wonder why the chart in the OP has 1220 (rather than 1200) ST10000NM0086 listed? That works out to be 61 drives per POD.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Too soon to tell for 10TB drives. ST4000DX000 started out well and then started cratering.

 

[crashtech]

Yeah, I went to Hitachi many years ago and never looked back. Anecdotally, it's been a great decision, with only one drive that I know of experiencing pre-failure problems (it never lost data, though).

 

[aigomorla]

ouch look at that 31% failure rate....

remind me never to touch a 4tb seagate... well actually i dropped segate completely after i had 5 "NAS" drives fail on me this year right at the 2.5yr mark too.

 

[crashtech]

My bad experiences with Seagate started with 4.3GB Barracudas, and never really got better. They're the cheapest and most ubiquitous, which accounts for much of the failures I've seen, though the failure rate seems definitely disproportionate. I had several Quantum drives fail too, they haven't been missed.

 

[Elixer]

While I don't know the exact reason, it seems that drives with He in them seem to be much more reliable than the normal HDs.

Sure wish we still had the data recovery guys chime in on why.
I doubt that laser welding the drive shut is the main reason.