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A comment on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by merlincorey on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:44PM (#18970326)
> HGST doesn't fail a lot, but we also have statistically insignificant numbers of them, so <shrug>."

They have over 20 thousand HGST drives now, according to this year's report, which seems significant to me.

They continue to have lower failure rates than the Seagates.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by mjevans on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:35PM (#18970913)
It will be when the drives they just added have had more time in use. The best part of this is that them adding those drives signifies that they were on the market at good prices to add; competition is a good thing for consumers.
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