> On 7 Apr 2020, at 11:36 am, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just don't use Seagate ST3000DM001 or ST2000DM001 3TB and 2TB drives. "All
> dead, all dead, all the drives are dead."
>
> 'Course any of those two models still operating are likely to stay operating,
> maybe. Backblaze (a company that operates massive storage farms) quickly
> retired all their ST3000DM001 drives from their storinator pods when they
> began failing at a rate far higher than any other drive they'd used. Peak
> failure was up to 42% vs the single digits they commonly saw with other
> drives.
> They were the first 1TB per platter hard drives when other 1TB+ drives were
> using 500GB per platter.
When you look at how Backblaze deployed those consumer class drives in an
enterprise class environment I am surprised they didn't get a greater failure
rate.
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