Hard Drive Reliability

[Brado78]

If you're looking to build a large file server or just upgrading to higher capacities. This is an interesting read

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

 

[Elixer]

Already posted.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2434436

 

[i7Baby]

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6...ility-myth-the-real-story-covered/index5.html

"The data from Backblaze should not influence a purchasing decision by any consumer, regardless of what type of drive they are purchasing. The innumerable variables, and lack of documentation, ensures the results are unreliable. Even for the winners, the results aren't good; the failure rates are exponentially higher than those observed in the real-world."

 

[AlienTech]

For the purposes of many power users, backblaze data is very relevant and shows what to expect. If they say a drive wont stand up to the usage, then most likely, the drive is not a good fit for power users. But maybe that drive would work great for mom and pop. BUT mom and pop dont come to power user forums or look at any data either.. I would rather pay a little more and buy a reliable drive that stood up to some abuse rather than buy a cheaper fragile device to hold my valuable data. If it aint good enough for someone like backblaze, it aint good enough for me to use.

 

[eton975]

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6...ility-myth-the-real-story-covered/index5.html

"The data from Backblaze should not influence a purchasing decision by any consumer, regardless of what type of drive they are purchasing. The innumerable variables, and lack of documentation, ensures the results are unreliable. Even for the winners, the results aren't good; the failure rates are exponentially higher than those observed in the real-world."

Backblaze responds.

Basically, they controlled for the storage pods, USB HDD shucking, etc. and found that the drive itself/post-Thailand flood poor QC was the most likely culprit.

 

[therealnickdanger]

So far, I have found that my anecdotal evidence - which of my HDDs have failed vs those that haven't (yet) - lines up nearly perfect. Seagate sucks, especially the 3TB models.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I think that my most epic failure was with an ibm deskstar 75gxp that started the click of death before it passed away. There are so many variables involved with failures and we often blame something on the wrong reasons but I haven't had hd's go bad. I thought that I had one fail but it was my fault when I forgot to remount it. I still prefer wd blacks and veloraptors for mechanical storage.

 

[Ramses]

So far, I have found that my anecdotal evidence - which of my HDDs have failed vs those that haven't (yet) - lines up nearly perfect. Seagate sucks, especially the 3TB models.

Going on three years now I guess with not one, not two but three, count em, three of the worst of the worst 3TB Seagate drives. 3/4 of that time in a small NAS humming away pretty much 24/7 with one external as a backup for it. So far so good lol. I figure with two mirrored in the NAS and one external my odds of losing data are fairly low. I did buy an HGST last time I needed another big drive though.

 

[ronbo613]

The hard drives I've purchased have been pretty reliable, save for a couple Seagates, but it's the same old story; not a matter of if, but when...

 

[Ramses]

it's the same old story; not a matter of if, but when...

More true words seldom spoken...