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by immibis 508 days ago
Okay, almost always Seagate. Their drives fail at over an order of magnitude higher rates, too.
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>Their drives fail at over an order of magnitude higher rates, too.

Source? Aside from bad models (eg. ST3000DM001), their failure rates are comparable to other vendors, hovering around the low single digit percentage points.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...

This reminds me that I haven't seen a drive report from Backblaze in a while posted here.
There's one per quarter. Last one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122740