{"id":26547,"date":"2020-02-03T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=26547"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:53:13","slug":"who-makes-the-most-reliable-internal-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=26547","title":{"rendered":"Who Makes the Most Reliable Internal Hard Drives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Backblaze Hard Drive Failure Stats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of the ways to answer that question is to look at hard drive failure rates from a company that uses over 100,000 hard drives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“As of September 30, 2019, Backblaze had 115,151 spinning hard drives spread across four data centers on two continents.”\u00c2\u00a0 That is a lot of hard drives. Backblaze periodically provides drive failures stats for all the drives they use. You can see the stats above from their fall 2019 report. As a group, HGST drives have the lowest annualized failure rate.\u00c2\u00a0 More information is at the first article linked below.<\/p>\n

In terms of capacity, the sweet spot for hard drives right now is around 4 TB.\u00c2\u00a0 If you get a hard drive with more capacity than that, the failure rate goes up.<\/p>\n

Buying a highly reliable hard drive doesn’t guarantee it won’t fail. Any drive could fail. But you can cut down the odds by buying a hard drive from a company with a good track record.<\/p>\n

I just bought a new internal hard drive. Because of these stats I bought a 4TB HGST drive. I even picked a model number with a low AFR from the above chart.<\/p>\n

And of course whatever hard drive you buy should be backed up to at least one other drive and preferably more than one drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you want to store data in the cloud, Backblaze<\/a> is a good option. Unlimited backup of one personal Mac or PC (and attached external drives) is $6 per month, $60 per year, or $110 for two years. However, the experts I trust say you should never trust the cloud as your only backup option. You should have your own physical hard drives as your primary backup option.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Backblaze Hard Drive Data and Stats<\/a> (articles going back to 2013)<\/p>\n

Backblaze<\/a> – personal and business cloud storage<\/p>\n

The 6 Most Reliable Hard Drives According to Server Companies<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (the information in this article is from an older Backblaze report)<\/p>\n

The 3-2-1 Photo Backup Plan<\/a><\/p>\n

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