It's a fun article, but somewhat unfair to all the other HDD
manufacturers. BackBlaze puts their drives through a level of use far
beyond what just about any home user will ever need, so seeing shorter
MTTF for Seagate doesn't make me not want a Barracuda.
TechReport recently ran a stress test on SSDs, and like BackBlaze's HDD
tests all units performed beyond specs:
<http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead>
Never hurts to buy the best, but for most of us second-best, or
even-third best, is probably going to serve us well - unless we're
running a server farm, then I'd stick with Hitachi. :)
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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Jerry Jensen wrote:
Thanks, Richard. Interesting data in that article.
I’ve been buying HGST Ultrastar drives. I’m surprised to not see them mentioned
in the article. I prefer them for their 5 year warranty, which implies that
they may last longer. The price difference is not much compared to what a
failure costs in time and aggravation. I don’t have thousands of them, like
backblaze, but maybe a dozen. So far I have no failure data because there have
been NO failures.
.Jerry
On Apr 30, 2015, at 6:39 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:
Alex Shaw wrote:
Very inconvenient but it's too easy to get upset about these things.
I've certainly had my fair share of hardware problems so..
Apparently the key is to buy Hitachi/HGST:
<https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/>
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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