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by okbrown 898 days ago
If there is one company that could give accurate stats on what drives actually perform better and what drives are the worst and fail more often it is Black Blaze, but yet they don't. What a missed opportunity to provide some insight.
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okbrown 898 days ago
No.... I take it back, I am a fool! They do publish the stats!! https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...

My bad!!

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apocalyptic0n3 898 days ago
They've been publishing these stats for years and years now, too. It's a wealth of data they've provided and has helped me pick the dozens of drives I've ordered over the years
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autoexec 898 days ago
Where are you ordering your drives from these days? In the past I went from physical shops -> new egg -> amazon and now amazon and new egg aren't reliable sellers and the physical shops are either gone, under-stocked, or buy their stuff on amazon too.
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apocalyptic0n3 898 days ago
B&H is usually a safe choice. Newegg and Amazon can be too if you're careful with who the seller is. Drives for work often get placed through an enterprise wholesaler like CDW or MARKIT.

For my personal NAS projects, I generally buy a WD MyBook/EasyStore from Best Buy and shuck the drive. The drive on the inside is generally a WD White Label, which is a WD Red (NAS drive) that didn't meet QA specs. I wouldn't rely on them for mission critical stuff, but they're perfect for a Plex server and you can generally get them cheap. (worth noting that I've seen a few say they've been removing the SATA connections from these recently and I haven't bought one in about 15 months so do some research before purchasing)

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neonnomad 898 days ago
I just went through this so I can well you B&H and Microcenter both did well for me. I actually had a failed drive from B&H (one of two) who took care of it and refunded my money. The best advice I can give though it order drives from different suppliers or batches so you don't get two from the same batch which can sometimes have a problem.
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okbrown 898 days ago
One thing for sure though, these stats have confirmed my disappointment with Seagate all these years. Utter garbage!
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ranting-moth 898 days ago
Yep, I never buy a drive for myself or recommend to other without having first looked the their stats.
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atYevP 897 days ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Mwahaha :D I was going to post a link but you found it :)
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jannyfer 898 days ago
Like this?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-...

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okbrown 898 days ago
My first Facepalm!! For 2024!!
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