Vendor Sponsor
Backblaze
Research Published
February 11, 2025
Link to research
Description
Backblaze datacenter hard drive failure data. Pretty cool.
Comments
Year 10! 4T drives are out, 24T drives are in.
Demographic or Methodology comments
Topic Tags
InfrastructureStorageCloud
Sample
Vendor's datacenter
Sample Size
300000
Data Source
Product DataBehavior data
Gate
Ungated
Cadence Score
10
Demographics
10/10Good discussion of sample and biasHumblebrag
Created time
Apr 14, 2025 12:16 AM
Directory name
A decorative image with the title 2024 Year End Drive Stats.
As of December 31, 2024, we had 305,180 drives under management. Of that number, there were 4,060 boot drives and 301,120 data drives. This report will focus on those data drives as we review the Q4 2024 annualized failure rates (AFR), the 2024 failure rates, and the lifetime failure rates for the drive models in service as of the end of 2024. Along the way, we’ll share our observations and insights on the data presented, and, as always, we look forward to you doing the same in the comments section at the end of the post.