Cloud Backup Service Vendor Backblaze publishes its actual hard disk usage Failure Rate Report Quarterly, and this year Q1 's report has just been released. The report calculates the failure rate of different branded hard drives using a sample of Backblaze's 61523 hard drives.
The results show that Hitachi (HGST) has the lowest cumulative failure rate (more than 1%), which is significantly better than Seagate (nearly 4%), Toshiba (near 3.1%), and West (nearly 7%). at the same time, Hitachi is also the longest-running hard disk for Backblaze.
But it must be pointed out that the statistics of the West number, Toshiba is still small, only 1691, 238, respectively, than last year Q4 increased 10 and 1 blocks.
In the specific model, the Seagate St31500541as and the West number of WD20EFRX annual failure rate of more than 10%, very reassuring.
For the 4TB model alone, Hitachi remains the lowest-fault brand, less than 1%, while Seagate is close to 3%.
Mechanical hard disk who is the most reliable home? Hitachi second Seagate, West number