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Note to self: stay the hell away from Western Digital. Good lord, an 8.2% annualized failure rate? That's unbelievable. They have the first, second, and third w
by trowawee 10y ago
Note to self: stay the hell away from Western Digital. Good lord, an 8.2% annualized failure rate? That's unbelievable. They have the first, second, and third worst failure rates on that chart.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoA few years ago, you could have said the same for Seagate. Even worse, actually. Certain models had over 10% failure rate. Some WD models almost had HGST levels of relibility. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update...
- trowawee 10y agoHmmm. Curious. I wonder if Seagate has improved their production somehow to avoid those failure rates, because even with those previous very high rates, they fare much better on the 2013-2016 total chart.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoThey might have. But I also wonder if those drives were among the first after the 2011 Thailand floods, and if Seagate's factories were still a bit dirty after resuming production.
- trowawee 10y agoAhhh, didn't even think about that. That seems like it could be a definite possibility.