I believe the SG failure stats are largely dominated by a specific model line which is no longer produced. I bet SG will recover next year when we see these. Keep in mind these stats reflect the AFR of drives, which in some case can be several years worth of data.

I wish backblaze would share some data around accelerated lifecycle testing.

You could argue that Seagate has already recovered. That 4TB Seagate model (ST4000DM000) is doing pretty well. From the chart, it's Backblaze's most popular model by far, and they've been using it for at least 2 years. Its failure rate is lower than most WD models they have.

Yes. From my experience they have though the performance of those 2Ts definitely hurt their reputation a ton. Might be a while before SG becomes known as the standard for quality again.

I had four of the Seagate 3TB drives that are listed in their ratings with high failure rates. All four of mine died in less than 3-years. They were a really disappointing purchase.

I had 4 Seagate drives of varying capacity and model numbers die on me within 11 weeks of each other, all were less than 3 years old and one of them was in use for less than an hour.

Never again.

Same - had two and both died. No recourse for an obviously defective product.

It looks like more recent models have a lower failure rate than WD's.

my two seagate drives in my nas failed, one in 09/16 and one 01/17. thank god for raid. i replaced them with bigger seagate drives. maybee i should not.

remember raid != backup. you and everyone who has valuable data should have offsite storage separate from your nas.

Sounds like you might be able to benefit from a cloud backup solution....

In all seriousness though, I use backblaze and while I haven't had any HDD failures I have gone back to check on the backup from time to time and it's always looking good.

All portable hdds die quickly, no fans and they're moved a lot.

My photos are a) still on my sd card until it's full, b) on my raidz1 and raidz2 drives on my nas, c) backed up to flickr, free 1TB storage using https://github.com/richq/folders2flickr

Having only 1 copy of something that's easy to perfectly replicate is very silly.

What do you mean by “moved a lot”? I assumed the HDD heads are moved to a parking position when the disk is turned off to not accidentally slam into the disks.

Portable means the storage has a compact form factor and a case so you can carry it around (turned off). I have never seen anyone actually use a portable disk while moving. Everyone puts them on their desk next to the laptop. The only thing I can imagine is working on a train.

Even the 2.5" ones inside laptops that are basically desktop replacements and run cool enough seem to fail a lot compared to their 3.5" brothers.

Good thing SSDs exist now.

Accidentally knocked, or dragged by the cable because the laptop was moved a bit.

"easy"