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Backblaze: High-Capacity Disk Drives Are Looking Good

Backblaze said 10,220 drives were deployed this quarter, and 20TB-plus models posted a 0.85% annual failure rate across more than 86,000 units.

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Cloud storage service provider Backblaze says 22 and 24 TB disk drives are looking good in AFR terms ...

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Backblaze Publishes Q1 2026 Drive Stats: Reliability Improves as 92% of New Deployments Exceed 20TB

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 9, 2026-

Backblaze, a cloud storage service provider, operates over 340,000 HDDs from manufacturers such as HGST, Seagate, Toshiba, and WDC in its data centers. Backblaze has now released its HDD failure rate report for the first quarter of 2026. Read more...

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Business Wire broke the news in Crystal River, United States on Thursday, July 9, 2026.
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