<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Backblaze, which is a cloud storage/backup provider, publishes drive failure statistics for their roughly 160,000 drives. They mostly use fairly large drives (lots of 12-16 TB) from a few different manufacturers (including lots of Seagate drives). Their stats may or may not be of use to you when selecting new drive(s), but it’s interesting to see anyways. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html#quarterly-stats-blog-articles">https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html#quarterly-stats-blog-articles</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 7, 2021, at 6:29 PM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<font face="Bitstream Charter">Hi,<br>
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2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something fairly
soon. I haven't bought a harddisk for a long time. Has Seagate
improved their quality? Or, should I go with Western Digital as I
usually do?<br>
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