14 DAY TRIAL // Reliability is a really big deal in servers and data centers, since it's not fun for an HDD meant to work 24/7 to fail after just a year of work. Backblaze has figured that people might appreciate a chart of whose drives are best in that regard.
The results might surprise people. Seagate came in last, despite having shipped the largest number of HDDs to Backblaze.
The cloud service provider currently uses 12,765 drives, for a total of 39,576 TB storage, and found that the average age of HDDs in its setups is of 1.4 years.
Hitachi, on the other hand, can keep going for 2 years on average.
Western Digital actually came in with 2.5 years average, but there are only 2,838 of them in use, for 2,581 TB, so it isn't exactly fair to put the statistic next to the others.