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Seagate Sets New Record With 36TB Hard Drive And Teases Upcoming 60TB Model (techcrawlr.com)
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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Why would Backblaze use so many Seagate drives if they’re significantly worse? Seagate also has some of the highest Drive Days on that chart. It’s clear Backblaze doesn’t think they’re bad drives for their business.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I can only speculate on why. Perhaps they come as a package deal with servers, and they would prefer to avoid them otherwise.

There are plenty of drives of equivalent or more runtime than the Seagate drives. They cycle their drives every 10 years regardless of failure. The standout failure rate, the Seagate ST12000NM0007 at 11.77% failure, has less than half that average age.