Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2021

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I love these every time they're posted.

Is there something similar for SSDs?

The report does discuss SSDs, and it looks like they'll have SSDs as part of reports going forward. There's also a link in their to their earlier HDD Vs SSD post, But afaik there's no existing long term reports on SSD failure rates in this kind of setting.

> Together with Seagate, we decided to remove these drives from service over the coming months.

>both Seagate and Dell were looking into the possible causes for the unexpected failure rate.

Someone is finally starting to feel PR hits from their terrible products.

>HGST MegaScale DC 4000.B HMS5C4040BLE640 4TB

$60 Amazon refurbs! Wonder how many of 12K listed were refurbs, how old were those when purchased, and if Backblaze got Smart wiped drives.

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