Don’t buy these hard drives

Backblaze has officially released its report on hard drive failure rates for Q2 2016.

This marks the first time the company’s 8TB drives have become readily commercially available and appeared on the list.

The company also noted a personal preference – Seagate, due primarily to the fact that they had difficulty sourcing Toshiba and Western Digital drives.

As a result, we (perhaps unsurprisingly) see issues with specific models of HDDs rather than wholesale brands (WDC 2TB drives for example).

Before rushing out to buy a new drive, we also suggest checking out this article for some other factors to consider when buying a hard drive in South Africa.

You can check out the full results below:

A couple of observations on the chart (click to enlarge):

The models that have an annualized failure rate of 0.00% had zero hard drive failures in Q2 2016.
The annualized failure rate is computed as follows: ((Failures)/(Drive Days/365)) * 100. Therefore consider the number of “Failures” and “Drive Days” before reaching any conclusions about the failure rate.