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HGST is Probably the Best Internal Hard Drive You Can Buy

June 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

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Online backup service Backblaze continues to post an enormous amount of data concerning its experience with over 40,000 hard drives from all the major manufacturers. This data is unique in that it demonstrates the real world failure rates from hard drives that are being pushed on a daily basis. That’s something I can’t do in a review of a single hard drive. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: hard drive, Hitachi, seagate, Toshiba, WD, Western Digital

 

Best Hard Drive – 2015 Edition

January 22, 2015 By Eric Reagan

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Backblaze just posted its data on failure rates of hard drives that it uses in its data center. At the end of 2014, it had 41,213 drives active for storing all of the data in its unlimited backup service.

It uses a variety of hard drive capacities across HGST (formerly Hitachi), Seagate and Western Digital. There is everything from 1.5TB to 6TB drives in operation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: data, hard drive, hard drive failure, Hitachi, seagate, WD, Western Digital

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