Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
126 points by th0br0 6 years ago | 21 comments- idlewords 6 years agoAs someone who runs a tiny archiving operation (about 70 hard drives) I find these stats invaluable and am so grateful to you for publishing them! You make it a lot easier to navigate an expensive and intimidating world of hardware options.
- atYevP 6 years agoYev here -> Glad you enjoy them! Thanks for reading!
- atYevP 6 years ago
- jcheng 6 years agoI've enjoyed the Backblaze hard drive failure rate posts for years, but never realized they publish the underlying data! https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html (scroll down)
It looks quite detailed--a daily snapshot of all of the SMART values for each individual hard drive.
- atYevP 6 years agoYev here -> Glad you like it! The SMART stats are definitely entertaining for folks who want to do a deeper-dive!
- philliphaydon 6 years agoI don’t know why but every time I read one I’m never disappointed. I find the data fascinating. I wish more companies would give information like this but on memory, cpus etc also.
- atYevP 6 years ago
- mikepurvis 6 years agoHow have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it's backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives.
Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actual drives and not SD card pairs or something, like how vSANs are often set up.
- blihp 6 years agoI'm really interested to see how those high capacity Helium-filled drives hold up over time. (i.e. I've been wondering how much leakage is going to be a problem)
- atYevP 6 years agoYev here -> that info should be in the SMART stats, so if you see a dip, checking there will give you a lot more context (though we'd likely call that out in our blog).
- atYevP 6 years ago
- kdkeyser 6 years agoDoes Backblaze have any SMR drives in use, or do you have plans to start using them? Would be really interesting to see if these exhibit a worse failure rate.
Anyway, thanks for sharing this data, I really like the openness.
- atYevP 6 years agoYev here -> No SMR drives in production at this point in time!
- atYevP 6 years ago
- ChrisRR 6 years agoI thoroughly enjoy reading these stats every time they're released.
It's just a shame that their user interface is missing many features I want, otherwise I would use them.
- TruffleLabs 6 years agoI’m just glad it works, I’m a Backblaze customer:)
- atYevP 6 years agoYev from Backblaze -> as an employee, I'm glad it works too :D
- atYevP 6 years ago
- lousken 6 years agoStill waiting for the Europe datacenter so I can start my backups :)
- mhkool 6 years agomy prediction: all four items in the list of predictions will happen.
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