Backblaze has released its Mid-Year SSDs results, where the firm discusses failure rates along with the average age of SSDs being utilized.
Backblaze's New Report Targets at SSD Failure Rates of Major Storage Manufacturers
Before diving into the statistics, you might wonder the reason behind the "quarterly figures" combined by Backblaze every time. Well, the motive behind it is quite obvious: storage solutions such as SSDs and HDDs have a longer life span compared to the likes of other hardware components.
Backblaze tests a range of storage devices to let consumers know about their average runtime, along with giving information about failure rates. This aids in selecting the perfect vendor for both an ordinary user as well as for companies that are dependent on storing huge amounts of data.
Now, going back, Backblaze validates the fact that their "evaluating data" has increased a lot since the previous year, as now the firm has 3,144 SSDs in their servers, which is almost a 20% increase from 2022. A higher data set definitely means that the results obtained will be more reliable, but they will also include ambiguities, which we will discuss later on. However, Backblaze does reveal that the new SSDs are from Crucial, WDC, and Seagate.
AFR (Annual Failure Rate) is a term defined for whether an SSD stops working in a particular YoY time period. Backblaze stats have revealed that a Seagate (model SSDSCKKB240GZR) SSD has reached 830% AFR, but this figure was only applicable for a sample size of just one SSD within Q1-Q2. Moreover, quarterly AFR also witnessed a minimal increase, reaching up to 1.05%.
Moving on to the average failure rate (AFR) of an SSD, Backblaze determines a figure by analyzing "power-on-hours or POH" for the SSDs that encountered a failure during the quarter. The firm reiterates the fact that the runtime of SSDs is directly proportional to its average age, which is why their "fleet" of SSDs reached an average age of 25 months, and this is expected to increase with the passage of time. Lifetime AFR is also a crucial factor categorized as the "true test" for a drive, and in this case, Backblaze saw a minor quarterly increase of 0.9%.
Pretty interesting data by the company, and we should appreciate the effort going into compiling the actual data since it definitely helps companies choose their respective storage solutions.
News Source: Backblaze
