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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025
Read the Q2 2025 Drive Stats report to see the latest annualized failure rates, as well as an in-depth look at the 20TB+ drives currently in the Backblaze drive fleet.
Sure, they’re obstacle courses we all (and I’m including you, users of the internet) collectively create, but it’s no less of a balancing act to find the contestants (erm, hard drives) that can go the distance. While AFRs do get us mostly on an even playing field as far as being able to make a 1:1 comparison, it’s important to remember that in smaller drive pools, a single failure can be amplified by quite a bit. Without taking a closer look at the 14–16TB drives, it’s hard to say that they don’t have similar outlier tendencies to what the 12TB and smaller pool does, just pulling the failure rates upward.
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