Large HDDs Live Short Lives, Failure In Under Three Years
It was suggested many many years ago, that as the size of HDDs and the RAID arrays they are part of increase, there will come a time where it is impossible not…
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Rust keeps on spinin’, spinin’, spinin’; into the future
Backblaze have been one of the larger remote backup providers for quite some time now, and running their 104,778 HDDs gives them a lot of insight into drive failures. They are kind…
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Lies, damned lies and statistics
Backblaze is a moderately sized hosting company with about 40,000 disks set up in their own style of arrays called Storage Pods, which are open sourced so that you can build one…
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Hard drives die too
One thing you can do when you have 25,000 consumer level HDDs running is to amass accurate data on the failure rates of drives. Backblaze has done exactly that and published their…
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