Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze drives ranks HGST most reliable

21 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by sbulaev

4 Comments

systemswizard

8 hours ago

It’s a shame WD acquired them and killed the brand in 2018. Some of the best spinning rust drive I’ve ever used

ShinyLeftPad

9 hours ago

I spent hours pouring over their tables previously and it's still somewhat random depending on your capacity, batch and such... Like, I recall seeing how HGST failed much less for some years but then other drives of similar capacity in the setup were years older (way longer in use) so i would pay attention to specifics

cyanydeez

10 hours ago

Can you imagine if they put this much work into fixing their billing system?