March 22, 20233 yr https://www.extremetech.com/computing/report-most-hdds-die-after-almost-3-years-newer-models-are-less-reliable The study was conducted by a data recovery company in Los Angeles named Secure Data Recovery (via Blocks & Files). Unlike Backblaze, which has hundreds of thousands of drives spinning in its pods, this study looked at just 2,007 failed hard drives. The study's crux was examining two statistics, which it counts as "predictable." These are how long drives were powered on and how many bad sectors they accumulated, as opposed to unpredictable events like natural disasters, malware, and mishandling drives. The study's overarching goal was to give folks a rough idea of what they could expect for a drive's lifetime to convince them always to back up their data.
March 23, 20233 yr Thank you for posting... But I would question the value of such "studies", including findings posted by BackBlaze. There's nothing scientific about them or how they're conducted - just thrown together piles of data headed by a catchy headline. No wonder they're contradicting each other in case of Hitachi. Seems just another case of purposeful creation and publication of sensationalized conclusions, based on bogus, unscientific interpretations, designed to attract as much of publicity as possible. Worked wonders for BackBlaze to promote their brand and services at very little cost. Edited March 23, 20233 yr by Lolight
March 23, 20233 yr The main bias I see is that this type of company only sees disks with issues. Either hardware, software or user issues. It's probably not super representative. Less that something like Backblaze that analyses all it's drives, those who have issues and the larger number that does not.
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