Posted on 02/17/2016 9:12:01 PM PST by Utilizer
By the end of 2015, the Backblaze datacenter had 56,224 spinning hard drives containing customer data. These hard drives reside in 1,249 Backblaze Storage Pods. By comparison 2015 began with 39,690 drives running in 882 Storage Pods. We added 65 Petabytes of storage in 2015 give or take a Petabyte or two. Not only was 2015 a year of growth, it was also a year of drive upgrades and replacements. Let's start with the current state of the hard drives in our datacenter as of the end of 2015 and then dig into the rest later on.
Hard Drive Statistics for 2015
The table below contains the statistics for the 18 different models of hard drives in our datacenter as of 31 December 2015. These are the hard drives used in our Storage Pods to store customer data. The Failure Rates and Confidence Intervals are cumulative from Q2 2013 through Q4 2015. The Drive Count is the number of drives reporting as operational on 31 December 2015.
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Thanks for posting this, Utilizer.
really I had one go bad I sent it back to Seagate and they replaced it!!! I like the New SSD’s!!! Load up computer in 30 seconds!!!
No worries. :) Hope it helps.
I believe I know someone at HGST, I remember him telling me about the new helium drives a few years back...
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