Desktop drives have a much shorter warranty and they can be cheaper, but do they really fail sooner? I deep dive on AFR (annualized failure rate) analysis on 4Tb to 8Tb disks from Seagate, HGST and Western Digital to find out.
I compare a variety of 4Tb, 6Tb and 8Tb models, including Seagate Barracuda vs Exos and WD Deskstar vs Ultrastar and Megascale DC. Based on nearly 5 billion hours of data from 95,000 drives. Many of the drives have data for up to 9 years of use. You might be surprised what I find.
Video on the broader analysis of 430k drives over 10 years of data : [ Ссылка ]
Dive into AFR data on 10-16Tb Enterprise disks : [ Ссылка ]
Enterprise vs NAS disks? Which should you choose? : [ Ссылка ]
Link to the BackBlaze data source : [ Ссылка ]
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