Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017
Found on Backblaze on Tuesday, 29 August 2017
The enterprise drives have 363,282 drives days and an annualized failure rate of 1.61%. If we look back at our data, we find that as of Q3 2016, the 8 TB consumer drives had 422,263 drive days with an annualized failure rate of 1.60%. That means that when both drive models had a similar number of drive days, they had nearly the same annualized failure rate.
Once again, Seagate is at the top when it comes to failure rates. If you value your data, buy drives from someone else who is by an order of magnitude more reliable.