Also see hardware.fr failure rates. It shows different data than Backblaze. French hardware site, component failure rates. Google translate it to english http:

Also see hardware.fr failure rates. It shows different data than Backblaze. French hardware site, component failure rates. Google translate it to english http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-6/disques-durs.html http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-6/disques-durs.html So its also important to take hard drive models into account. Then there is the Google study Failure trends in large hard drive population http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...