Reliability Data Set For 41,000 Hard Drives
 

Backblaze Online Backup has released the raw data collected from the more than 41,000 disk drives in our data center. To the best of our knowledge this is the largest data set on disk drive performance ever to be made available publicly.

Over the past 16 months, I have been posting information about hard drive reliability based on the raw data that we collect in the Backblaze data center. I have crunching those numbers to correlate drive failures with drive model numbers, with SMART statistics, and other variables.

There are lots of smart people out there who like working with data, and you may be one of them. Now it’s your turn to pore over the data and find hidden treasures of insight. All we ask is that if you find something interesting, that you post it publicly for the benefit of the computing community as a whole.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-data-feb2015/