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I always look forward to backblaze's posts. Does anybody know if drive manufacturers pay attention to their posts about reliability? I know when I worked with

I always look forward to backblaze's posts. Does anybody know if drive manufacturers pay attention to their posts about reliability? I know when I worked with mainframes we sent every bad drive back to IBM for failure analysis, but would Backblaze's aggregate data be useful to somebody like Seagate?

bluedino 12y ago
>> would Backblaze's aggregate data be useful to somebody like Seagate? Probably not. They posted before that they don't even buy enough drives to purchase directly from the manufacturers.
atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We've since spoken to some of the device manufacturers after some of our more recent posts. :-p