A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has released a report on its hard drive failure rates for 2022 which appears to verify that the age of a drive is a key metric for predicting potential failure.
However, 4,299 of these were boot drives while another 388 drives were removed from consideration because they had been used for testing purposes or were models for which the company did not have at least 60 drives in operation. This still leaves statistics covering 230,921 hard drives used for data storage purposes.
"In our Q2 2022 and Q3 2022 quarterly Drive Stats reports, we noted an increase in the overall AFR from the previous quarter and attributed it to the aging fleet of drives, but is that really the case?" he asked.Klein compared 2021 and 2022 annualized failure rates for large drives against smaller drives and found that every size showed an increase in AFR between 2021 and 2022. The figures show the smaller drives failing more often, but they are also older.
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