• "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020"

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Tue May 12 17:27:45 2020
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    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/

    "At the end of Q1 2020, Backblaze was using 129,959 hard drives to store customer data. For our evaluation we remove from consideration those
    drives that were used for testing purposes and those drive models for
    which we did not have at least 60 drives (see why below). This leaves us
    with 129,764 hard drives. The table below covers what happened in Q1 2020."

    "The Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) for Q1 2020 was 1.07%. That is the
    lowest AFR for any quarter since we started keeping track in 2013. In addition, the Q1 2020 AFR is significantly lower than the Q1 2019 AFR
    which was 1.56%."

    Amazing. Those drives are running in a high temperature and high
    vibration environment.

    Lynn

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  • From Percival P. Cassidy@Nobody@NotMyISP.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Wed May 13 14:19:46 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 5/12/20 6:27 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020"
       https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/

    "At the end of Q1 2020, Backblaze was using 129,959 hard drives to store customer data. For our evaluation we remove from consideration those
    drives that were used for testing purposes and those drive models for
    which we did not have at least 60 drives (see why below). This leaves us with 129,764 hard drives. The table below covers what happened in Q1 2020."

    "The Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) for Q1 2020 was 1.07%. That is the
    lowest AFR for any quarter since we started keeping track in 2013. In addition, the Q1 2020 AFR is significantly lower than the Q1 2019 AFR
    which was 1.56%."

    Amazing.  Those drives are running in a high temperature and high
    vibration environment.
    And not a single WD-branded drive in use -- I know that HGST is now part
    of the WD "stable," but they are not the same.

    Perce
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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Wed May 13 13:54:38 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 5/13/2020 1:19 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
    On 5/12/20 6:27 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020"
        https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/

    "At the end of Q1 2020, Backblaze was using 129,959 hard drives to
    store customer data. For our evaluation we remove from consideration
    those drives that were used for testing purposes and those drive
    models for which we did not have at least 60 drives (see why below).
    This leaves us with 129,764 hard drives. The table below covers what
    happened in Q1 2020."

    "The Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) for Q1 2020 was 1.07%. That is the
    lowest AFR for any quarter since we started keeping track in 2013. In
    addition, the Q1 2020 AFR is significantly lower than the Q1 2019 AFR
    which was 1.56%."

    Amazing.  Those drives are running in a high temperature and high
    vibration environment.
    And not a single WD-branded drive in use -- I know that HGST is now part
    of the WD "stable," but they are not the same.

    Perce

    Pricing, pricing, pricing. WD is the premier brand now and they charge
    for it.

    Lynn

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  • From nmassello@nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Wed May 13 14:48:53 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/13/2020 1:19 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
    On 5/12/20 6:27 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020"
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/

    "At the end of Q1 2020, Backblaze was using 129,959 hard drives to
    store customer data. For our evaluation we remove from consideration
    those drives that were used for testing purposes and those drive
    models for which we did not have at least 60 drives (see why below).
    This leaves us with 129,764 hard drives. The table below covers what
    happened in Q1 2020."

    "The Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) for Q1 2020 was 1.07%. That is the
    lowest AFR for any quarter since we started keeping track in 2013. In
    addition, the Q1 2020 AFR is significantly lower than the Q1 2019 AFR
    which was 1.56%."

    Amazing. Those drives are running in a high temperature and high
    vibration environment.
    And not a single WD-branded drive in use -- I know that HGST is now part
    of the WD "stable," but they are not the same.

    Perce

    Pricing, pricing, pricing. WD is the premier brand now and they charge
    for it.

    I noticed that more than half of their drives are now 12TB or larger,
    although they still have more 4TB drives than 8TB drives. I suspect that
    the effective rent on a slot in one of their pods now dictates that they
    buy very large drives, even if the cost per GB is a little higher. It
    also looks like they are keen to test before going to the MAMR
    technology that WD has gone to in their new drives.


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