Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze drives ranks HGST most reliable

toomuchtodo

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11458693/

cyanydeez

Can you imagine if they put this much work into fixing their billing system?

ShinyLeftPad

I spent hours pouring over their tables previously and it's still somewhat random depending on your capacity, batch and such... Like, I recall seeing how HGST failed much less for some years but then other drives of similar capacity in the setup were years older (way longer in use) so i would pay attention to specifics

systemswizard

It’s a shame WD acquired them and killed the brand in 2018. Some of the best spinning rust drive I’ve ever used