前幾天 Backblaze 放了 2020 年的回顧資料出來：「Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020」。
整體的 AFR (Annualized Failure Rate) 在 0.93% 左右，而如果照品牌拆開，HGST 的數字依然是最漂亮的 (雖然他現在是 WD 的品牌)，大約在 0.36% 左右 (111/(1083774+4663049+372000+820272+275779+3968475))，Toshiba 次之，大約低了平均值一些落在 0.89%，而 Seagate 光是看就就知道會超過 1%...
官方有提到，低於 250,000 drive days 以下的數據僅供參考，因為資料量太少，在統計上無法提供結論：
For drives which have less than 250,000 drive days, any conclusions about drive failure rates are not justified. There is not enough data over the year-long period to reach any conclusions. We present the models with less than 250,000 drive days for completeness only.
然後 WD 本家的硬碟回到戰線了，記得之前基本上算是被唾棄 XDDD
另外一張表則是講到這三年的情況，可以看出來 2020 年的 AFR 數字降了不少，裡面也解釋了為什麼 (看起來就是活下來的穩下來了...)：
The answer: It was a group effort. To start, the older drives: 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, and 10TB drives as a group were significantly better in 2020, decreasing from a 1.35% AFR in 2019 to a 0.96% AFR in 2020. At the other end of the size spectrum, we added over 30,000 larger drives: 14TB, 16TB, and 18TB, which as a group recorded an AFR of 0.89% for 2020. Finally, the 12TB drives as a group had a 2020 AFR of 0.98%. In other words, whether a drive was old or new, or big or small, they performed well in our environment in 2020.