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12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability

12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability
technology10/17/2025

Backup firm brings a unique, informed perspective to HDD failure rates.

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’s netted the firm a lot of data. And that data has led the company to... [4334 chars]