Backblaze's Geriatric Hard Drives Kicked The Bucket More In 2023
The Register, Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze has published a report on hard drive failures for 2023, finding that rates increased during the year due to aging drives that it plans to upgrade.
Backblaze, which focuses on cloud-based storage services, claims to have more than three exabytes of data storage under its management.
As of the end of last year, the company monitored 270,222 hard drives used for data storage, some of which are excluded from the statistics because they are still being evaluated. That still left a collection of 269,756 hard drives comprised of 35 drive models. Statistics on SSDs used as boot drives are reported separately.