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  • "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general on Tue Oct 20 13:01:11 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/

    "As of September 30, 2020, Backblaze had 153,727 spinning hard drives in
    our cloud storage ecosystem spread across four data centers. Of that
    number, there were 2,780 boot drives and 150,947 data drives. This
    review looks at the Q3 2020 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the
    data drive models currently in operation in our data centers and
    provides a handful of insights and observations along the way. As
    always, we look forward to your comments."

    Good night, they just got some 18 TB drives. I just bought a 12 TB and thought I was bleeding edge. I guess not.

    Looks like several 12 TB drives failed early, both HGST (WD) and
    Seagate. Scary stuff that.

    Lynn

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  • From Mark Perkins@mark@none.invalid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general on Tue Oct 20 13:35:59 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:01:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/

    "As of September 30, 2020, Backblaze had 153,727 spinning hard drives in
    our cloud storage ecosystem spread across four data centers. Of that
    number, there were 2,780 boot drives and 150,947 data drives. This
    review looks at the Q3 2020 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the >data drive models currently in operation in our data centers and
    provides a handful of insights and observations along the way. As
    always, we look forward to your comments."

    Good night, they just got some 18 TB drives. I just bought a 12 TB and >thought I was bleeding edge. I guess not.

    Looks like several 12 TB drives failed early, both HGST (WD) and
    Seagate. Scary stuff that.

    So far my 12TB Seagates have held up fine. If I lose one, though, that's a
    lot of data to lose at one time.

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  • From Neill Massello@nmassello@yahoo.com to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general on Tue Oct 20 19:15:47 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 2020-10-20 at 12:01:11 MDT, "Lynn McGuire" <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/

    Thanks for your periodic posting of links to these reports, and thanks to Backblaze for publishing them. They're like user reviews on steroids.



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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general on Tue Oct 20 22:33:03 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 10/20/2020 2:15 PM, Neill Massello wrote:
    On 2020-10-20 at 12:01:11 MDT, "Lynn McGuire" <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/

    Thanks for your periodic posting of links to these reports, and thanks to Backblaze for publishing them. They're like user reviews on steroids.

    They have freaking usable data. I just wish the mainstream WD drives
    were there too.

    Lynn


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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general on Tue Oct 20 23:11:35 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 10/20/2020 2:15 PM, Neill Massello wrote:
    On 2020-10-20 at 12:01:11 MDT, "Lynn McGuire" <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/

    Thanks for your periodic posting of links to these reports, and thanks to Backblaze for publishing them. They're like user reviews on steroids.

    They have freaking usable data. I just wish the mainstream WD drives
    were there too.

    Did they dump WD brand? :(
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  • From Percival P. Cassidy@Nobody@NotMyISP.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Wed Oct 21 14:19:33 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 10/21/20 12:11 AM, Ant wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/ >>>
    Thanks for your periodic posting of links to these reports, and thanks to >>> Backblaze for publishing them. They're like user reviews on steroids.

    They have freaking usable data. I just wish the mainstream WD drives
    were there too.

    Did they dump WD brand? :(

    HGST is part of WD now. I think of HGST as a "more industrial strength"
    line of drives -- more suitable for servers.

    Perce


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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general on Wed Oct 21 19:21:22 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 10/20/2020 11:11 PM, Ant wrote:
    In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 10/20/2020 2:15 PM, Neill Massello wrote:
    On 2020-10-20 at 12:01:11 MDT, "Lynn McGuire" <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/ >>>
    Thanks for your periodic posting of links to these reports, and thanks to >>> Backblaze for publishing them. They're like user reviews on steroids.

    They have freaking usable data. I just wish the mainstream WD drives
    were there too.

    Did they dump WD brand? :(

    I would guess too expensive compared with Seagate and HGST.

    Lynn


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  • From Neill Massello@nmassello@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Oct 22 02:16:41 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 2020-10-21 at 12:19:33 MDT, ""Percival P. Cassidy"" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote:

    HGST is part of WD now. I think of HGST as a "more industrial strength"
    line of drives -- more suitable for servers.

    Somewhat more expensive and with better reliability than the WD models, although I have been using 5400rpm WD Reds in a couple of RAID boxes for a couple of years now and have absolutely no complaints about them.



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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Oct 22 16:06:53 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 10/21/2020 9:16 PM, Neill Massello wrote:
    On 2020-10-21 at 12:19:33 MDT, ""Percival P. Cassidy"" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote:

    HGST is part of WD now. I think of HGST as a "more industrial strength"
    line of drives -- more suitable for servers.

    Somewhat more expensive and with better reliability than the WD models, although I have been using 5400rpm WD Reds in a couple of RAID boxes for a couple of years now and have absolutely no complaints about them.

    Both WD 8 TB USB External drives that I shucked were HGST white helium
    drives. Very nice performance at the 250 MB/s read and write rate.

    Lynn


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