Backblaze updated their drive reliability study

[b-man1]

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... mber-2014/

good stuff.

[Executioner]

At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data

Wow never heard of "petabytes".

This was an interesting statement:

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.

Looks like the Hitachi are the best drives.