[ale] Backblaze HDD Report ....

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 10/26/2017 06:38 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 2017-10-26 15:17, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/big-hard-disks-may-be-breaking-the-bathtub-curve/
>>
>> Headline:
>>        1200+ 10T Seagate disks - ZERO (yes, ZERO) failures!!!
>>
>> Seems that Seagate might be doing something about their poor reputation
>> for huge consumer disks?  The numbers for 4TB Seagate models aren't
>> nearly so great (3-31% failures), so we still need to be careful in our
>> specific choices.
>>
>> I consider any failure rates over 1% to be an "avoid" for my needs.
> 
> Careful, the run time on those is not very high.  They have only
> accumulated 12,000 drive days and even Backblaze says to take any data
> set with less than 50,000 drive days with a grain of salt.
> 
> Also, that Seagate model is one of their helium filled enterprise class
> drives not a consumer drive.
> 
> I also look sideways at helium filled drives.  Keeping helium contained
> in anything is incredibly difficult and if enough leaks out the heads
> will crash.

Excellent points.  Thanks for posting!  I was shocked by the ZERO
failures from any Seagate disks, having been burned by them multiple
times since 2007.