AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
That said, there are other options we need to consider when looking at the HDD vs SSD debate. The average age for those drives is 49.63 months.īackblaze’s Drive Failure report shows us that straight reliability conclusions obviously elude us for now in real world reporting. Looking at the server function drives again, 1,669 drives have a combined total of 3,375,805 days of run time since. That is impressive for a drive that is being used, 24/7/365. I’ll repeat that for those in the back, EIGHT YEARS. The oldest SSD in this report is about 30 months old, while the oldest HDD has been working for 96 months, or 8 years. An SSD hosting a database that requires a lot of writes is very different from an SSD that is mostly a read-only boot drive. This leaves us with the question of if we should stick with ole reliable? Then there’s the question of usage profiles. The average age of the HDD’s is 49.63 months, while SSD is 12.66. That is until you look at the age of the drive. With 1,518 SSD only having 2 drive failures and 1,669 HDD having 44 failures, you might think that SSD is a winner. However, they are using them for server functionality. HDD a Quick Look at their Drive Failure Statisticsīackblaze has not used any SSDs to store any customer data as of March 31, 2021. This guy REALLY loves drive failure reports… SSD vs. This model also holds the most collective running days out of the group, with over 61 million and counting. Roughly 11% of all Backblaze’s drives are this model of Seagate. The drive with the most failures is the Seagate ST4000DM000, with a total of 4,179 or 2.49% failed since 2013. With an impressive age average of 71.8 months old, that is nearly six years. The Seagate drive with zero failures within the three-month period. ![]() The Toshiba and WDC drives are young compared to the Seagate model, so time will tell how good these drives are as they continue to report. Seagate, Toshiba, and WDC had one drive model that had no failures in the first quarter. Noteworthy Brands in Backblaze’s Drive Failure Reportīackblaze reported on four different brands: HGST, Seagate, Toshiba, and WDC. But with SSD’s becoming more popular, this leaves us with the question is speed worth it? Backblaze reported on drive failures for their 171,919 hard drives for the first quarter of 2021. And certainly, any benchmark will show you SSD’s are significantly faster. ![]() The biggest question most datacenter operators need to be asking right now with SSD’s dropping in price is this: Is it now finally worth the cost? Sure, manufacturers say these drives are more reliable. Backblaze’s Drive Failure Report was Just Released And the Winner Is…
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |