Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats for Q1 2019

AmiMoJo writes: Backblaze's hard drive reliability stats for Q1 2019 are out, and show that Seagate has been improving for some time. It still can't match the long time leader, Hitachi, and had a nasty blip with 4TB drives. The Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) for all the hard drives tested in Q1 was 1.56%. That's as high as the quarterly rate has been since Q4 2017 and its part of an overall upward trend we've seen in the quarterly failure rates over the last few quarters..

Read more of this story at Slashdot.