HDDs Might Be Getting Less Reliable, But That Could Be OK
techradar.pro, Friday, August 4,2023
HDD failure rates are on the up, Backblaze survey finds
Cloud storage giant Backblaze has revealed its latest hard drive failure rate figures, and it's not looking too good for the future of the hard drive.
The figures, covering the three months that led up to June 30, 2023, comes from 240,940 hard drives used to store data across the company's portfolio, and excludes a further 357 storage hard drives due to not meeting reporting requirements and 1,316 boot HDDs. More than 4,000 HDDs were added to the figures compared with the previous quarter.
Overall, HDD annual failure rate increased from 1.54% in Q1 2023 to 2.28% in Q2 2023. This illustrates a trend of increasing failure rates, up from 1.37% for 2022 as a whole, 1.01% for 2021, and 0.93% for 2020.