![]() ![]() This ‘time-in-service’ currently outweighs the sheer quantity of Seagate 4 TB drives we have purchased and placed into service the last year or so,” BlackBlaze notes. “The early HGST drives, especially the 2- and 3TB drives, have lasted a long time and have provided excellent service over the past several years. See also The best new hardware of Computex 2018 After three years of service, HGST’s older 3TB drives had an annualized failure rate of just 0.81 percent while its 4TB drives were a touch higher at 1.03 percent. What’s more interesting is the cumulative data. It’s a little surprsing that WD and HGST are so far apart, considering that the former owns the latter. Segate’s highest failure rate was 9.63 percent, slightly worse than Toshiba’s high of 8.63 percent but not as bad as Western Digital’s 12.57 percent. Drive capacities ranged from 1.5TB to 6TB from HGST, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital.īased on the number of failures that occured from January 1 to March 31, HGST’s annual failure rate calculated anywhere from 0 percent to a high of 1.74 percent, with most drives sitting below 1 percent. That’s 9.5 percent more HDDs than its last review, which looked at 56,224 drives. BackBlaze just recently released stats for the first quarter of 2016, and once again it found that HGST is less likely to fail than any other brand.īackBlaze’s latest review analyzed 61,590 HDDs used to store encrypted customer data in its data center. That brings us to BackBlaze, a cloud backup and storage provider that routinely reports on HDD failure rates. You Are Reading : Ongoing hard drive test shows HGST is the most reliable brand You’ll hear anecdotal evidence of why one brand is the greatest ever and why another brand flat out sucks, but buying (or not buying) a hard drive based on one person’s experience isn’t the greatest way to go about things. ![]() If you want to strike up a debate among techies, talk about hard drives. ![]() Ongoing hard drive test shows HGST is the most reliable brand ![]()
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