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Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that\u2019s netted the firm a lot of data. And that data has led the company to conclude that HDDs \u201care lasting longer\u201d and showing fewer errors.<\/p>\n

That conclusion came from a blog post<\/a> this week by Stephanie Doyle, Backblaze\u2019s writer and blog operations specialist, and Pat Patterson, Backblaze\u2019s chief technical evangelist. The authors compared the AFRs for the approximately 317,230 drives in Backblaze\u2019s datacenter to the AFRs the company recorded when examining the 21,195 drives it had in 2013<\/a> and 206,928 drives in 2021<\/a>. Doyle and Patterson said they identified \u201ca pretty solid deviation in both age of drive failure and the high point of AFR from the last two times we\u2019ve run the analyses.\u201d<\/p>\n

A graph entitled \"A Comparison of Backblaze Drive Failure Rates Over Time\"
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Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that\u2019s netted the firm a lot of data. And that data has led the company to conclude that HDDs \u201care lasting longer\u201d and showing fewer errors. 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