In terms of quarterly failures, Seagate’s 4TB HDD led the pack with 91 units out of a total of 439 failing drives. Interestingly, the company’s 6TB HDD…
Bottom line: Backblaze has published the latest reliability figures for its data drives (HDDs) and boot drives (SSDs and HDDs) for Q2 2021. The company noted a slight increase in quarterly AFR across its data drives, which were expectedly led by a couple of Seagate and Toshiba models that have one of the highest drive counts and average age across all monitored HDDs. Backblaze also drew a comparison between its SSD and HDD boot drives by looking into past data for a more accurate insight into their failure rates. In terms of quarterly failures, Seagate’s 4TB HDD led the pack with 91 units out of a total of 439 failing drives. Interestingly, the company’s 6TB HDD was among the three HDD models that recorded zero failures in Backblaze’s Q2 2021 reliability report.
