Seagate and Western Digital HDDs dominate reliability charts

Seagate and Western Digital HDDs dominate reliability charts

Backblaze analyzes 344,196 drives that collectively operated for over 115 million days, reporting improved reliability overall while exposing aging hardware risks and price volatility.

Backblaze Publishes 2025 Drive Stats Report: 13 Years of Data Show Growing, Healthier Drive Fleet

Backblaze, Inc., high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, published its 2025 Year-End Drive Stats report. The report analyzes the performance of 344,196 hard drives across 30 models. The 2025 yearly annualized failure rate (AFR) was 1.36%, down from 1.55% in 2024. Q4 2025 posted an even stronger quarterly AFR of 1.13%. Lifetime AFR […] The post Backblaze Publishes 2025 Drive Stats Report: 13 Years of Data Show Growing, Healthier D…

The Hard Drives That Refuse to Die: Inside Backblaze’s Latest Reliability Report and What It Means for Enterprise Storage

In an era when solid-state drives dominate headlines and cloud infrastructure spending reaches record highs, the humble hard disk drive remains the backbone of large-scale data storage. And for the companies that depend on tens of thousands of spinning platters to safeguard petabytes of customer data, one question looms above all others: which drives actually last? Cloud backup provider Backblaze, which has made a name for itself by publishing b…

Hard drive failure analysis – the Backblaze experience

backblaze.com marks 13 years of collecting Hard Drive Stats data. Statistics such as these provide folks who may not be keeping such detailed records to have a statistical approximation as to how and when their own hard drives might develop faults. As of the end of 2025, Backblaze was monitoring 341,664 drives used to store data. For our evaluation, we removed from consideration 4,013 boot drives and 459 hard drives, as they did not meet the cri…