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I've recently joined the WD shucking crowd so, unfortunately, there are no stats for the drives I'm running. The cost/GB has just gotten too ridiculously low on

I've recently joined the WD shucking crowd so, unfortunately, there are no stats for the drives I'm running. The cost/GB has just gotten too ridiculously low on shucked drives and my array large enough that a failure or two isn't the end of the world, oh and 3-2-1 backup rule. I've always really enjoyed reading Backblaze's reports though and have made past buying decisions based on their information. I wonder if it might be possible for a community sourced version of these reports? A small app that checks SMART data and sends it to a central repository for displaying stats? Many from the self-hosted/homelab crowd are running these shucked drives so there has to be a large pool of stats out there if it can be gathered?

andy4blaze 6y ago
Andy at Backblaze here. We've looked at this and the one "issue" is the consistency of the environments from the community data. In our DCs, the drives are kept a decent temperature, hardly ever moved, and our DC tech sing to them every night (OK, just kidding about that last one). Community drives will comes from all types of environments, from pristine to dust bunny hell. Still, it might be interesting to compare the two data sets if a community cohort could be collected.
- touisteur 6y ago
  Be careful not to sing too loud at them https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 Incidentally I've tracked down a HDD (spinning rust) performance (and later breakage) problem to a very loud (and I mean awfully painful, intense vibration on your eardrums) alarm test every wednesday... Do you monitor the noise in your DCs? Maybe for high peaks?