Just ran across a stat about how fast old hard drives fail

I was looking through some Backblaze drive failure reports the other day and saw that even their oldest drives from around 2013 still have a failure rate under 15% after a decade. That surprised me because I always figured mechanical drives would just die way sooner than that. I had three Seagate Barracuda 1TB drives from about 2020 that all crapped out within two years, so maybe I just got unlucky. Has anyone else seen those Backblaze numbers and had a different experience with their own drives?

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finley_flores2811d ago

Backblaze numbers are decent but your Seagates crapping out that fast sounds about right honestly.

wesley_hart10d ago

Yeah stick with WD drives, they last way longer in my experience.