Before You Buy a New Hard Drive, Don’t Miss These Excellent Stats From Backblaze
If you’re about to buy a new hard drive for whatever reason, Backblaze (the online backup company…which I highly recommend, by the way) has published an excellent roundup of hard drive deployment and reliability data. It attempts to answer the question, “What hard drive should I buy?” and succeeds spectacularly.
Because Backblaze has a history of openness, many readers expected more details in my previous posts. They asked what drive models work best and which last the longest. Given our experience with over 25,000 drives, they asked which ones are good enough that we would buy them again. In this post, I’ll answer those questions.
Don’t miss the whole article. Very well done, and super informative from a buying decision standpoint.
When people talk about operational transparency, this is a great example of what they mean.
