Are “Enterprise-Quality” Hard Drives Worth It?

26 Oct
2017
26 Oct
'17
11:24 p.m.
Another quarter, another report from backups outfit Backblaze on hard disk reliability <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/big-hard-disks-may-be-breaking-the-bathtub-curve/>: In aggregate, the company has now accumulated 3.7 million drive days for the consumer disks and 1.4 million for the enterprise ones. Over this usage, the annualized failure rates are 1.1 percent for the consumer disks and 1.2 percent for the enterprise ones. At least for now, then, the enterprise disks aren't doing anything to justify their longer warranty; their reliability is virtually identical.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro