Backblaze data reveals that HDD models are quietly surviving data center chaos, while others are spiraling into double-digit failure territory
Seagate and Western Digital dominate reliability rankings across massive real-world datasets The annual failure rate drops to 1.36% across 344,196 drives Vibration emerges as the suspected cause behind the sudden reliability collapse Backblaze has released its 2025 drive reliability data, offering one of the clearest large-scale snapshots of HDD performance in active data centers. The […]









