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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

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by metadat

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Seagate continues the tradition of having the highest failure rates of any manufacturer, on average.
Why is that?

by binsquare

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Flash storage costs have gone way up.
I wonder if backblaze's business has seen any changes given that their assets are platter drives

by anonym00se1

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Super interesting thanks for sharing.
Can y'all offer a backup plan targeted at home users with a NAS? The current two tiers either don't support that or are incredibly cost prohibitive to a random schmo who just wants his NAS backed up.

by CTDOCodebases

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My drives have an AFR of 0.41
It looks like I picked a good vintage which is good because the same drives are approaching 2x the price today.

by bayouborne

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"As of the end of 2025, Backblaze was monitoring 341,664 drives used to store data."
Three hundred thousand drives. That figure seems insane. Google and AWS must have truly staggering amounts.

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by lofaszvanitt

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The sad thing is that they need 330k hard drives to store a shitton of data. And there are no hard drive alternatives on the market.