Discussion about BackBlaze as a source for drive reliability data

[R-T-B]

You must mean the never ending, you two generally bickering incessantly

We actually get along pretty well, but thanks for the vote of confidence.

 

[Steevo]

Context. Simply put their data is good if you are going to buy or have purchased one the drive models listed. If not, the data is useless unless you want to buy a specific drive model they have listed. That being said if their more than (x number of drives you plan on buying greater than the number they represent) is not qualifier enough then buyer beware.

Also, YMMV as your case may be cooler than theirs, your drive may have a unknown flaw that will lead to its demise, it may have been damaged in shipping, lightning may strike, an asteroid may strike it, all very valid things with a statistical chance.

Whining about free data is being a whiner, don’t be a whiner.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This comment belongs in this thread to keep from derailing the other thread;

Talk with any regular or large HDD recovery service and they will agree that seagate is among the top dying disks. The quality of consumer disks for some reason is far worse then the rest.

But can they provide tangible data to support that statement? That's what BackBlaze is doing. Granted, they are not testing/using every drive model on the market(it would be awesome if a company did so) but what they do use, they declare. If companies that had the access to such data compiled and declared such data, we the consumers would have a great deal of info to make a decision upon.

Disks that can run 5 years without issues for a start

To be fair, I have a Seagate drive made in 2006 that still works perfectly. It's in an external USB3 enclosure and is used as a general data transfer drive, but still. That is 15 years of solid use. No bad sectors, no SMART warnings.

 

[R-T-B]

Whining about free data is being a whiner, don’t be a whiner.

To be clear, I love free data and have no issue with that part. What I take issue with is people misusing said free data.

Hope that clarifies.

But can they provide tangible data to support that statement? That's what BackBlaze is doing.

tbf, even the backblaze data is not showing a massive trend one way or the other. It leans one way MAYBE, but only by a few percentage points in most instances.

 

[95Viper]

Stay on topic!
The topic is "Discussion about BackBlaze as a source for drive reliability data"; and, not each other's posting relationships.