HDD SSD Failure Rates
Discussions focus on personal anecdotes, patterns, and statistics regarding failure rates and reliability of HDDs versus SSDs, including references to Backblaze data, usage wear, and early versus late failures.
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No mention of disk failure rates? curious how it's holding up after a few months
This is a pretty common pattern with disk failures - in my experience they either tend to fail in the first few months, or they make it for the duration.
Do they use HDDs? If so, does that mean the older HDDs had less failures?
In your experience, when you had those 12 failures, did drives die suddenly or was it "expectable" because of high usage (high wear)?
My experience is 10 drives from 2009-2012 that still work and 10 drives from 2014 that have failed.
What's your experience with the Atwood Failure Rate for SSDs?
I haven't had ssd failure at all. But at least three HDDs failed, maybe four.
Did you keep any data on how often you got to replace your drives because of such signs ?
I have 3 different SSDs since early 2009 (64 & 128GB Supertalent Ultradrive ME + Intel X25-M 80GB) and the latter two are in heavy use everyday. They all work fine until today, but this article worries me a bit ;)
Do larger capacity drives have higher failure rates?