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I always love the Backblaze hard drive stats, even if I'm not in the market. > During this quarter 4 (four) drive models, from 3 (three) manufacturers, had 0 (
by Paul-ish 6y ago
I always love the Backblaze hard drive stats, even if I'm not in the market.
> During this quarter 4 (four) drive models, from 3 (three) manufacturers, had 0 (zero) drive failures. None of the Toshiba 4TB and Seagate 16TB drives failed in Q1, but both drives had less than 10,000 drive days during the quarter. As a consequence, the AFR can range widely from a small change in drive failures. For example, if just one Seagate 16TB drive had failed, the AFR would be 7.25% for the quarter. Similarly, the Toshiba 4TB drive AFR would be 4.05% with just one failure in the quarter.
Backblaze should consider adding interval estimates in addition to point estimates. It might help the reader understand the uncertainty of the point estimate.
- tidywell 6y agoMore important than interval estimates would be survival curves to know how the drives fail as they age, which could give you a sense of when they should be replaced.