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No idea now. I usually look to BackBlaze's periodic drive performance reports when I'm shopping, but even that's been a while for me.

• walrus01 4y ago
  at a large enough scale, almost everything backblaze uses is sufficiently reliable as measured by percentage of any pool of 100 drives that fails in a year, as they have a large amount of parity / data duplication across multiple pods, hot spares, etc. I haven't seen any drives that really stood out as terrible in their reports in the last couple of years for 12TB+ spinning disks, although the HGST product do seem to be the most reliable.
  • goatcode 4y ago
    The manufacturers whose drives they use provide a good basis for my consideration. I don't see certain names on their lists sometimes, so my search usually is narrowed down by that.
    • walrus01 4y ago
      there's literally only 3 spinning HDD manufacturers on earth now so if a name doesn't appear on their list now it's because it doesn't exist. some of the things on their list are now brands owned by a single company through consolidation.
      • goatcode 4y ago
        They now have a SSD report: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-review/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-...