![]() However, HGST’s worst-performing model, a 3 TB drive, was significantly worse (3.6% annualised failure rate) than Seagate’s best (1.7%). It is now owned by Western Digital.) Backblaze has generally avoided paying the additional cost of Enterprise-class drives, so most of the disks mentioned here are consumer-class.Īnnualised failure rates across all drives average at just under 2%, with HGST generally rather better than that, and Seagate slightly worse. (HGST is the successor to Hitachi, which took on the ill-fated IBM Deskstar range and made a success of them. Most of their drives were made by HGST or Seagate. ![]() In the last quarter of 2016, Backblaze used significant numbers of models from four different manufacturers (HGST, Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba), ranging in capacity from 3-8 TB.
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