But it is probably the best data available
on hard drive failure — especially at this kind of scale.
Not exact matches
They also posted a 2.8 percent annualized
failure rate for their 4 TB Seagate
drives — below Backblaze's average annual
failure rate reported in the study above — which is as close as we have to a comprehensive report
on a specific
hard drive manufacturer's reliability as of this writing.
Honan admits that he's partly to blame, for daisy - chaining three online accounts so that the
failure of one would lead to the
failure of the next; for putting his street address
on his personal website's domain registration (when a P.O. box would have worked); for not backing up his laptop to a physical disk; for not using two - factor authentication
on his Gmail account; and, worst of all, for enabling his iCloud account to wipe his laptop's
hard drive.
As I learned very much the
hard way
on an 18 + hour cross-country
drive we took several years ago,
failure to plan is planning to fail when it comes to family road trips.
Points stay
on your
driving record unless you work
hard to remove them through sponsored programs, like a DMV - approved
Failure to Yield course.
Another, previous study by Backblaze examines
hard drive failures over time, though it has no data
on specific manufacturers.