On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > TFA doesn't mention drive vendors. Does "others" in the "fingering others" > statement refer to other SMART metrics?
Backblaze published their vendor stats recently. Hitachi drives were the best, followed by WD. Then WAY behind those two were Seagate. I noticed that I own two of the drives that they claim they have a 15% annual failure rate on - I just warranty replaced one of them so I'm at about 50% right now on that model. :) Unfortunately the WD drives are a considerable step-up in cost. Even factoring in a 15% annual replacement rate on the Seagates after the first 3 years (the warranty period I think) it will take a long time for the WD drives to be cheaper, let alone the Hitachis (or whoever they were sold to). I must have burned through a half-dozen warranty replacements on my one system in the last 2-3 years - mostly Seagate. Just another reason to use RAID/btrfs/zfs/etc. -- Rich
