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    Blackblaze shows hdd brands failure rate (seagate takes the prize)

    http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21...-should-i-buy/
    Makes me regret buying 2 seagates hdd heh

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    These are desktop drives in a server setting, failure rates might not transfer over to enterprise drives in a server setting.

    Also, they're continuing to use Seagate drives, so I don't really know what their point is. If Seagate drives are so bad, why save $10 per drive and invest hours of tech. time into failed HDDs, RMAs, et cetera.
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    Those are consumer drivers, I wonder if there's anyone doing similar study but purely on enterprise drives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skoh View Post
    Those are consumer drivers, I wonder if there's anyone doing similar study but purely on enterprise drives.
    If you look around the forum, it really does come down to luck. You'll see one guy say they had high failures from brand A, but brand B is doing really well. They'll get a reply back that brand B isn't so good, brand C is better. Et cetera. I think, typically, WDs and Seagates are regarded as the most reliable on WHT.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven F View Post
    If you look around the forum, it really does come down to luck. You'll see one guy say they had high failures from brand A, but brand B is doing really well. They'll get a reply back that brand B isn't so good, brand C is better. Et cetera. I think, typically, WDs and Seagates are regarded as the most reliable on WHT.
    We'd concur with backblaze, we've had the most problems with Seagate - so much so we don't buy them any more unless it's Cheetahs. We've found Hitachi to be the most reliable as well, with WD somewhere in the middle if you discount the Raptors.
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    I would be interested to know what types of chassis they use with these drives and whether the chassis is designed to insulate the drives from vibration issues. Some cheap chassis vibrate the drives to death.
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    Quote Originally Posted by qps View Post
    I would be interested to know what types of chassis they use with these drives and whether the chassis is designed to insulate the drives from vibration issues. Some cheap chassis vibrate the drives to death.
    They discuss their chassis at http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20...orage-pod-3-0/

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    Quote Originally Posted by PersonalJ View Post
    Thanks - I saw this shortly after posting. I wonder how effective that is in dampening the vibrations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by qps View Post
    Thanks - I saw this shortly after posting. I wonder how effective that is in dampening the vibrations.
    Quote Originally Posted by backBlaze
    Anti-vibration drive bay assemblies. There are now 3 assemblies, one for each row of 15 drives. Each assembly is designed to lock down a row of drives in place. These assemblies replace the “drive bands” around each drive. This saves nearly an hour during Pod assembly and makes drive replacement easier as well.

    The key advantage of the drive bay assemblies is to reduce vibration. These assemblies not only keep the drives still, they also keep them firmly seated in the backplanes. Over the past several months we have tested different models of drives in the new drive bay assemblies and we have seen a dramatic improvement in overall system performance along with lower drive failure rates
    their practice and finding proved the point that desktop-grade consumer drives shouldn't be installed in regular rackmountable chassis which won't have these external anti-vibration features.

    so, their take of enterprise v desktop drive is really not quite relevant to "regular" production environment in data center where offers no external "anti-vibration" mechanism at all, therefore users would have to rely on the internal anti-vibration design built onto those "enterprise" drives.

    I wonder what the number (defect rate) would be about all those desktop drives if BackBlaze removed all the external anti-vibration thingy from their pods?!
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    Odd, I always have good luck with seagates. We have seen more trouble with WD.

    +1 to staying away from ANY green drives!
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    Quote Originally Posted by cwl@apaqdigital View Post
    their practice and finding proved the point that desktop-grade consumer drives shouldn't be installed in regular rackmountable chassis which won't have these external anti-vibration features.

    so, their take of enterprise v desktop drive is really not quite relevant to "regular" production environment in data center where offers no external "anti-vibration" mechanism at all, therefore users would have to rely on the internal anti-vibration design built onto those "enterprise" drives.

    I wonder what the number (defect rate) would be about all those desktop drives if BackBlaze removed all the external anti-vibration thingy from their pods?!
    What are their anti-vibration features?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven F View Post
    What are their anti-vibration features?
    Quote Originally Posted by BackBlaze
    Anti-vibration drive bay assemblies. There are now 3 assemblies, one for each row of 15 drives. Each assembly is designed to lock down a row of drives in place. These assemblies replace the “drive bands” around each drive. This saves nearly an hour during Pod assembly and makes drive replacement easier as well.

    The key advantage of the drive bay assemblies is to reduce vibration. These assemblies not only keep the drives still, they also keep them firmly seated in the backplanes. Over the past several months we have tested different models of drives in the new drive bay assemblies and we have seen a dramatic improvement in overall system performance along with lower drive failure rates.
    From the previously linked article: http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20...orage-pod-3-0/

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    Quote Originally Posted by HackedServer View Post
    From the previously linked article: http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20...orage-pod-3-0/
    Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. Skimmed over that part.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skoh View Post
    Those are consumer drivers, I wonder if there's anyone doing similar study but purely on enterprise drives.
    A big datacenter such as Softlayer might have some (internal) statistics on enterprise drives. Question is, how do you get it from them

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