[PatK]

According to a chart provided in the report, the 8TB drives are highly reliable. The HGST HDS5C8080ALE600 worked for 22,858 days and only saw two failures. The Seagate ST8000DM002 worked for 44,000 days and only saw four failures, generating an annual failure rate of 3.30 perce https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-conten...-rates.jpg

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-driv...s-q2-2016/

[PatK]

Update on this old thread Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 with 83,151 drives, Toshiba is looking good.

Good reading, https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-driv...s-q2-2017/

[noggin]

Update on this old thread Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 with 83,151 drives, Toshiba is looking good.

Good reading, https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-driv...s-q2-2017/

Looking at the drive days and number of drives columns, the Toshibas have very low numbers. The drive days numbers are below those BackBlaze suggest are useful ?

When looking at the quarterly numbers, remember to look for those drives with at least 50,000 drive days for the quarter. That works out to about 550 drives running the entire quarter. That’s a good sample size. If the sample size is below that, the failure rates can be skewed based on a small change in the number of drive failures.

[PatK]

Guess that's why I provided the link, for the reader to judge for themselves. Looking good is not a pronouncement of 'good', but more of a personal journey I've experienced with my set-up. Next years statistics might show more and for a lot of us, this information is invaluable.