The company breaks down which models they use across all of the 68,813 hard drives they have in-house. Surprisingly, despite their past data showing a high failure rate for the Seagate brand in ...

Online backup service Backblaze uses the same hard drives most of us use to store our data—which means they have almost 35,000 consumer drives housing our data. Their latest report claims that ...

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HGST drives continue to impress as far as overall AFR rates and this isn't the first year that's been true. Overall, these are some of the most reliable drives over time that Backblaze has tested ...

Just about anyone still in the hard drive biz has made some reliable drives. Maxtor, WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, Samsung and even the recently departed IBM have made good drives.

Seagate’s most reliable drive was a 16TB model that managed a 0.78% AFR to put it in the 8th position. One of its other drives placed 10th.

After 18 hours of new research and testing, we found that the 2 TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim is still the best portable hard drive for most people. It’s reliable, it’s one of the lightest ...

If you want to know how reliable modern hard drives are, ask a company that uses a lot of them. Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor May 1, 2019 at 6:28 a.m. PT See als ...

Of the hard drive brands it uses, Seagate, Hitachi, and Western Digital feature most prominently. Seagate has 12 765 drives in use, while Hitachi has 12 956 in Backblaze’s servers.

The study revealed that Hitachi hard drives were the most reliable with the Annual Fail Rate of 1.5 percent or lower. The Hitachi GST Deskstar 5K3000 (HDS5C3030ALA630) with 3TB storage had the ...