Hard drive reliability report instills confidence in 8-12TB capacity HDDs

Hard drive reliability report instills confidence in 8-12TB capacity HDDs

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https://www.pcgamer.com/hard-drive-reliability-report-instills-confidence-in-8-12tb-capacity-hdds/

Cloud storage provider Backblaze has been updating its storage pods with bigger capacity hard drives, and as more time passes, it's able to provide a more general review of overall reliability. What Black Blaze has seen so far is that 8TB, 10TB, and 12TB HDDs don't fail as often as lower capacity drives.

There are some caveats that go along with that finding, the first of which is the larger capacity drives have not been in use as long as some of the lower capacity models. However, they're no longer brand new, either. Backblaze began inserting 8TB models into its storage pods over a year ago, and has upped the ante with even more capacious models.