An article from last January that summarizes research done by backup
service Backblaze:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives
(I've ran across this before, but interesting enough that it is worth
being reminded of.)
The nutshell summary is that Backblaz
On 10/5/2014 10:54 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
It sounded like the stats don't include many Western Digital Red (NAS)
drives, and no mention is made of Seagate NAS drives. Might they fair
better? They also note that the Western Digital Green drives were not
good for reliability, being negatively impacte
Richard Pieri wrote:
> Backblaze is near line storage: they fill up disks to capacity, spin
> them down...
I believe they actually have a mix of usage scenarios. No doubt they
have some systems that operate as you describe, while others are more
like front line storage.
If this was not the case,
