Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that’s netted the firm a ...

Over 317,000 drives analyzed; four models recorded zero failures; high-capacity drives (20TB+) outperform average. Trusted by IT leaders and storage professionals since 2013, this latest installment ...

Discusses 2025 Annual Hard Drive Failure Rates and Data Trends February 18, 2026 1:00 PM ESTCompany ParticipantsStephanie ...

Backblaze’s quarterly updates on annualized failure rates (AFRs) for its arsenal of hard disk drives (HDDs) have provided unique insight into long-term storage use for over 10 years. Today, the backup ...

Backblaze has posted another installment of its hard drive stat analysis, showing which manufacturers, models, and capacities are the most reliable. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on ...

Cloud backup company Backblaze has become well-known for its hard drive and SSD failure rate reports. The interval of time it uses for its reports varies, as sometimes it's quarterly, annual, or both.

It's a technical marvel that mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) don't give up the ghost way more often than they do. Some models are more prone to premature failure than others, of course, but overall ...

The folks at Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company located in San Mateo, California, published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs ...

In context: Backblaze is a California-based company dealing with cloud storage and data backup services. Every year, the organization provides some interesting reliability data about the large fleet ...

The latest quarterly report from Backblaze on hard drive reliability reveals a rise in failures among certain drives. Backblaze is a pure storage provider; cloud storage is all they do, and they dig ...