*****The Most (and Least) Reliable Hard Drive Brands ***** THE WORD IS OUT! No physical storage medium lasts forever, and as you probably already know, hard drives in particular can die rather unexpectedly. But how long can you expect your drive to live for… 2 years? 5 Years? Backblaze uses 25,000 hard drives for its online backup service. This has provided some interesting information, such as how long hard drives are likely to last and the difference in reliability between enterprise and consumer drives. Backblaze has spilled the beans on which drive manufacturers are the most reliable, and the least. The comparison is between Seagate, Hitachi, and Western Digital. (The company has a few Toshiba and Samsung drives, but not enough for analysis.) Backblaze says they buy the least expensive drives that perform well, based on stress tests and a few weeks in production. As with the previous analyses, Backblaze measured the reliability of the drives by looking at the annual failure rate, the average number of failures while running a drive for one year. Overall, most of the drives survived for at least three years, but looking at this data, you might want to consider going with a Hitachi or WD drive instead of Seagate, unless you read other reviews of a specific drives reliability. The good news is, 80% of hard drives last at least four years. The bad news is 20% of them dont ;)
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:45:52 +0000
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