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There seems to be an incomparably tiny sample size for about half of these... 1 out of 47 drives gives a 8.63% annual failure rate.
by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
There seems to be an incomparably tiny sample size for about half of these... 1 out of 47 drives gives a 8.63% annual failure rate.
- pgrote 10y agoYes, they mention this in the article. "Failure rates with a small number of failures can be misleading. For example, the 8.65% failure rate of the Toshiba 3TB drives is based on one failure. That’s not enough data to make a decision."