Backblaze HDD drive stats full 2022

[EAZ1964]

The full year stats are in. A bit more data as it is the full year coverage.
As always: be careful with the interpretation as lifetime, brands, number of drives and drive hours vary, and wrong conclusions are easily drawn.
Also datacenter use is not the same as NAS use.

Anyway I like to review it a bit.

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022

Check out the 2022 year-end Drive Stats data, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

www.backblaze.com

 

[Telos]

Can't wait to see how the HAT drives performed! O... wait...

 

[EAZ1964]

An interesting conclusion is that Seagates higher AFR is compensated by lower cost.
As the HAT (basically rebranded/tweaked Toshiba) has a higher cost, they may not be competitive for a datacenter, that has been laid out to handle failures. At SOHO/home we might decide differently as we hate failure.

 

[Coop777]

HGST Deskstars and WD (formerly HGST) Ultrastars continue to rock it....