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A comment on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026 by nalekberov on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:42AM (#49906554)
How long have they been spinning 24/7?

idk, it was such a traumatic experience for me that I decided to pass on recertified HDDs.

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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026 by fc417fc802 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:48AM (#49906586)
A really long time (at least by residential standards). Close to 24/7 for many years.

If a single HDD failing is traumatic then you're doing something wrong. At absolute minimum you should be in raid1. Backups should amount to snapshots that can be restored in a single step.

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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026 by nalekberov on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:24AM (#49906858)
> If a single HDD failing is traumatic then you're doing something wrong. At absolute minimum you should be in raid1. Backups should amount to snapshots that can be restored in a single step.

I wasn't storing anything important on it anyway, mostly movies ripped from Blu-rays. So its failure wasn't traumatic. However I expected it to last at least three years, but it died after exactly 365 days of use. The seller refused to send a replacement, and legally speaking, they were in the right.

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