Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
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Backblaze released drive stats for Q3 2025, highlighting drives with zero failures, sparking discussion on the reliability of certain drive models.
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What amazes me is that some models are running with 500+ units, in a total of 100,000+ accumulated hours, and no single drive has failed. One of the models (Seagate ST8000NM000A (8TB)) had one single failure a year ago.