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Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Q3 Hard Drive Failure Rates

by Andy Klein backblaze.com published 2018-10-165 min read

Backblaze has 99,636 spinning hard drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models in operation in our data centers.

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