A Moment Of Silence For All The Drives That Died In The Making Of This Backblaze Report
The Register, January 31st, 2023
Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more - who knew?
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has released a report on its hard drive failure rates for 2022 which appears to verify that the age of a drive is a key metric for predicting potential failure.
Backblaze regularly releases stats covering the failure rates of all the hard drives under its management, and these datasets have proven a treasure trove for others to analyze for their own purposes - provided they cite Backblaze as the source and do not sell the data.
The latest figures published on the Backblaze blog cover the hard drive failure rates it saw for 2022 across its storage portfolio, which stood at 235,608 individual drives as of December 31.