Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

Seagate continues the tradition of having the highest failure rates of any manufacturer, on average.

Why is that?

Flash storage costs have gone way up.

I wonder if backblaze's business has seen any changes given that their assets are platter drives

My drives have an AFR of 0.41

It looks like I picked a good vintage which is good because the same drives are approaching 2x the price today.

The sad thing is that they need 330k hard drives to store a shitton of data. And there are no hard drive alternatives on the market.