Hard Drive Endurance

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:26:05AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> "Which hard drive to buy" has come up a couple times on this list:
> 
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/21/2232235/who-makes-the-best-hard-disk-drives
> 
> The original article, if you want to bypass Slashdot:
> 
> http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
> 
> Backblaze buys the cheapest model of HD they can find, but they use them by
> the thousands.  The stats they generate are of course for their specific
> use case, but it's interesting.  The short version: Seagate: Bad, Western
> Digital: OK, Hitachi: Good (others: not enough data).  I've favoured WD, so
> I may need to rethink that.  Definitely interesting.

The IBM deskstar still worries me, which may be why I never have given
Hitachi a chance.

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