02-03-2017, 11:22 AM
Another set of data points in a report from a company, Backlaze, that uses a lot of drives (over 70,000) and keeps track of failure rates is found here
For the Western Digital drives it looks like they report on only three models/capacities of the Reds. Greens and Blues aren't in their data set. Despite that, this report may be useful to see the failure rate stats for different manufacturers for comparable drives. It is clear from their results that the HGST drives had significantly lower failure rates for Backblaze.
For the Western Digital drives it looks like they report on only three models/capacities of the Reds. Greens and Blues aren't in their data set. Despite that, this report may be useful to see the failure rate stats for different manufacturers for comparable drives. It is clear from their results that the HGST drives had significantly lower failure rates for Backblaze.