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Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014

by Brian Beach backblaze.com published 2014-09-234 min read

At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced.

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