Backblaze Flags Q2 Drive Failure Rise, Sees Outliers Not a Trend
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Backblaze Flags Q2 Drive Failure Rise, Sees Outliers Not a Trend
Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) reported a quarterly annualized failure rate of 1.73% across its hard-drive fleet in its Q2 2026 Drive Stats report, an increase from the company’s longer-term average but one that management said was largely attributable to a small number of statistical outliers. Stephanie
Backblaze's latest Drive Stats report shows that enterprise ratings don't necessarily predict drive durability. In an analysis of 354,400 hard drives, the lifetime AFR ranged from 0.5% to 5.88%.
Backblaze Publishes Q2 2026 Drive Stats: Quarterly Failure Rate Rises to 1.73%
Backblaze, Inc., a high-performance capacity storage layer for AI, published its Q2 2026 Drive Stats report.Now in its thirteenth year, Drive Stats analyzes more than 350,000 production hard drives across Backblaze’s global storage cloud, making it the industry’s largest publicly available dataset on drive reliability. Drives 20TB and larger now make up more than a […]
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