Backblaze updated their drive reliability study
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 8:57 am
Wow never heard of "petabytes".At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data
This was an interesting statement:
Looks like the Hitachi are the best drives.The assumption that “enterprise” drives would work better than “consumer” drives has not been true in our tests. I analyzed both of these types of drives in our system and found that their failure rates in our environment were very similar — with the “consumer” drives actually being slightly more reliable.