Data suggests consumer drives are as reliable as enterprise models
 

Last month, online backup provider Backblaze published some interesting statistics on hard drive failure rates in its "storage pods." Now, the company is back with new data that compares failure rates for consumer- and enterprise-oriented drives. The numbers suggest that consumer models are just as reliable as their server-grade counterparts.

Backblaze houses user data in custom "storage pods" that have logged 14,710 consumer drive years thus far. (One drive year is equivalent to a single drive running for a ...

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