In the modern age of smartphones, tablets and laptops, hard drive failure almost seems very old. But still gamers, multimedia workers and backup storage companies rely upon the hard drive for their livelihood.
Data storage, irrespective of the technology is fated to fail some day. Specially physical media like hard drives have higher chances of failure. Hard drives have only a finite life span. The hard drive takes four years to start showing signs of wear. The sooner you realize the problem, the better or it might lead to data destruction.
Failed hard drive recovery is difficult to fix. You cannot attempt to recover the data by yourself as this will only worsen the situation. You need to look for a professional hard drive recovery company. Data Retrieval Ltd is the best hard drive data recovery UK and flash drive data recovery company whom you can trust upon to recover data from corrupted hard drive. Data recovery hard disk requires high experience and training to restore the data.
Report of Backblaze for the year 2016
Since 2013 every year Backblaze which is an online backup solution providing company gives a list of hard drives and their failure rates. This list lets everyone know about the good brand of hard drive and which model has the least failure history of that year.
Based on Backblaze’s experience in the year 2016, the 4 TB Toshiba MD04ABA400V and the 8 TB HGST HUH728080ALE600 proved to be the best hard drive with 0.00% failure rate throughout the year. Along with this, the 8 TB Seagate ST8000DM002 also had a 0.00% failure, but that hard drive got released only in November 2016, so it doesn’t really count.
WDC’s hard drives experienced a higher rate of failure at 3.88% and took the first place. The Seagate got the second highest number of failure at 2.65%. Backblaze had 1626 WDC hard drives and 61 of them failed. It also had 45,531 Seagate hard drives and 1029 of them failed in the span of one year.
Backblaze observed around 72,100 drives for storing customer data, and it did not adher to strict scientific tests and processes. They actually don’t have time for that. The use of hard drives represents the extreme cases which the consumers are likely to hit those limits in a period of one year. The total number of hard drive failures for the year 2016 was 1225. It means that there was 3.36 drives failure per day. The overall hard drive failure rate was 1.95 percent in 2016. It was 2.47 percent in 2015 which was very less than the 6.39 failure rate in 2014.
Thus, in general, Backblaze stated that the hard drive vendors are making best drives these days. The company also said that as drive counts increase to hundreds and thousands of units and when the drives are put through their process, failures become unavoidable. The failure rates vary depending on the workload and a certain amount of luck. From the Backblaze’s report for the year 2016, you will at least know which drive you can pick if you are waiting to start your own data backup business.
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