#HardDrive

Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Motherboard heat sink pin Pin made from heat sink from a computer motherboard.  A small piece of art that will make a statement when you wear it.4 3/4 inches in length.

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Computer hard drive platter suncatcher Computer hard drive platter suncatcher with black and clear beads.

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Lap top computer hard drive platter earrings Earrings made from recycled laptop computer hard drive platters, sea shells from the South Seas, and little black beads. A unique piece of wearable art. These earrings are fairly lightweight. Each disc is 2.5 inches across. PDD010

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Wire wrapped capacitors earrings Wire-wrapped capacitors from a computer motherboard make for an interesting fashion statement for the fashionable techno geek. PDD211

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Toroidal inductor earrings Small torroidal inductors wrapped in copper wire from a computer motherboard and accented with a rainbow glass bead make for interesting earrings. A wonderful fashion statement for the fashionable techno geek. PDD221

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Computer hard drive platter suncatcher Computer hard drive platter suncatcher with green, yellow and red beads.

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Wire wrapped capacitors earrings Wire wrapped capacitors from a computer motherboard accented with green glass beads. PDD042

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#harddrive #AYearForArt #PurpleDuckyDesigns #ArtForTheSoul #allforart #ArtMatters #artwork #BuyIntoArt #TheGiftOfArt #art #artist #SupportArtists

Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Hard drive spindle ring earrings with sea shells Earrings made from recycled computer hard drive spindle rings, cat5 wire, and sea shells. The seashells were brought back from the South Seas by my grandpa when he came back from WWII These earrings are a unique piece of wearable art. These earrings are lightweight. PDD052

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Computer motherboard chipset heat sink brooch A chipset heat sink off a computer motherboard makes for a unique brooch. 1.5 X 1.5 in PDD048

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Jean 🐸🧙

@purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social

1 week ago

Lap top computer hard drive platter Earrings Earrings made from recycled laptop computer hard drive platters and sea shells. A unique piece of wearable art. These earrings are lightweight. Each disc is 2.5 inches across. PDD109

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RootNationEN

@rootnationen.bsky.social

1 week ago

What to Do If Your Hard Drive Is Clicking – Fixes & Tips If you hear a sharp clicking noise coming from your drive, stop right away. Turn off your PC and take five minutes to read this article before you do anything else. Hard drive clicking is one of the most alarming symptoms a storage device can produce. We’ll break down what hard drive clicking really means, […] Post What to Do If Your Hard Drive Is Clicking – Fixes & Tips at Root-Nation.com.

What to Do If Your Hard Drive Is Clicking – Fixes & Tips #HardDrive #DataRecovery #TechTips #PCMaintenance #StorageSolutions

Lukas | Smart Home Expert 🇨🇦

@lukas-smarthome.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Technical Report - SmartHomeFehler: Lorex

Lorex Hard Drive Failure: Lifespan & Symptoms

#Lorex #HardDrive #Harddrivefailure

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AI Threat Reporter

@aithreat.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place Will HDDs follow RAM and SSDs when it comes to price increases?

Western Digital Sold Out All 2026 Hard Drive Production as #AI Centers Scramble, sorry humans hard disks are for AI, not you

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#WesternDigital #HDD #harddrive

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

西部数据和希捷确认：2026年硬盘已售罄 WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (www.heise.de) 17:38  ↑ 102 HN Points

[hard drive shortage]

Apparently, there is a hard drive shortage on the way, too.

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#HardDrive #HardDrives

Taka Taira-Kaplan

@takasphoto.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Oh great: HDD prices surge to highest point in 2 years with demand from China and the US HDD prices are now rising, with the highest-ever price increase over the last 2 years... joining the RAM and SSD crisis, as we step into 2026.

HDD prices surge to their highest in 2 years 📈—driven by strong demand from China and the US. Data centers and AI are soaking up supply, and consumers are feeling the pinch. #AI #DataCenter #HardDrive #TweakTown

Time to stock up or switch to SSDs?

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Limey_Tank

@limey-tank.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

Imagine, if you will, the wolf, a lone hunter, part dog, part dog, only this wolf is made of the world’s toughest metal! IRON! And it’s PROFESSIONAL!

#harddrive #storage

Simon Zerafa (Status: :no_AI_logo: :catthink: 😊)

@simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 This year marks 13 years of collecting Drive Stats data. Thirteen is an unlucky number (to some), but we count our lucky stars (or perhaps our lucky stats?) that we’ve had 13 years of this experiment. The traditional 13-year anniversary gift is lace—intricate, impressive, and vulnerable to a snag if you don’t plan ahead to protect the pattern. Systems, like lace, don’t survive by pretending there are no points of vulnerability. When it comes to our infrastructure, we want to build with the snags in mind to create something durable, and the Drive Stats series is always seeking to publish and provide data so that you, too, can go the distance with your drives. This year-end Drive Stats report looks at Q4 2025, the full year, and the lifetime view with that in mind. I think you’ll find the same things we do: over time, the patterns matter more than any single strand (or drive, to run this lace metaphor into the ground once and for all). Let’s look at the stats. #### Drive Stats is here for you Drive Stats is not a situationship. We’re a conversation and a relationship—to the data. Join the Drive Stats team for our regularly scheduled webinar to walk through the 2025 annualized failure rates, break down the data for interesting trends, and get the latest from the Backblaze drive fleet happenings. ## Drive Stats: The digest version ## Q4 2025 hard drive failure rates As of the end of 2025, Backblaze was monitoring 341,664 drives used to store data. For our evaluation, we removed from consideration 4,013 boot drives and 459 hard drives, as they did not meet the criteria to be included. We’ll discuss the criteria we used in the next section of this report. Removing these drives leaves us with 337,192 hard drives to analyze. The table below shows the annualized failure rates for Q4 2025 for this collection of drives. **Backblaze Hard Drive Failure Rates for Q4 2025** Reporting period October 1, 2025–December 31, 2025 inclusive Drive models with drive count > 100 as of December 31, 2025 and drive days > 10,000 in Q4 2025. ### Note and observations * New drives! * Seagate ST16000NM000J 16TB, with 112 drives * WDC WUH722626ALE6L4 26TB with 1,201 drives. Our first 26TB drive! * The honor roll: * HGST HMS5C4040BLE640 4TB: 1 failure * Seagate ST8000NM000A 8TB: 0 failure * Seagate ST12000NM000J 12TB: 1 failure * Seagate ST16000NM000J 16TB: 1 failure * Seagate ST16000NM002J 16TB: 0 failure * WDC WUH722626ALE6L4 26TB: 1 failure. Shoutout to the new kid—starting off strong! * Red flags: * HGST HUH728080ALE600 8TB: 10.29% * Seagate ST10000NM0086 10TB: 5.23% * Toshiba MG08ACA16TEY 16TB: 4.14% We talked about two of these drives last quarter, and what we said about the Seagate still holds true—we’re seeing end of life activity with this drive. But, let’s dig in on the 8TB HGST and 16TB Toshiba and see what’s going on. ### HGST HUH728080ALE600 8TB There’s always some digging to be done when we see a double digit failure rate, especially on a drive that, in the past year, hasn’t had terrible failure rates (despite the fact that it’s about 7.5 years old). It’s worth contextualizing, first, that the total drive count of this model is 1,073, which equates to less than one Vault. (A standard Vault has 1,200 drives.) While Vaults aren’t _always_ the same drive model, especially with older drives, in an ideal world, those Vaults would be uniform. So, in this case, we’re dealing with drives that are all hanging out in the same location in a data center, which means we could be working with environmental factors like a change in temperature or airflow. By the time Drive Stats data gets to me, of course, lots of smart people have already seen the disturbances in the force, so to speak. When I dug into the data center work tickets, it turned turned out that folks had already ruled out temperature as a factor—the working theory at the moment is that the drive could be sensitive to vibration, but given the age of these drives, we decided to just flag them for our normal CVT migration process. ### Toshiba MG08ACA16TEY 16TB We talked about this model last quarter because it clocked in at a 16.95% AFR (!!). Our investigation turned up some collaborative (and routine) firmware work with Toshiba, and at that time, we predicted that these failure rates would normalize once again. We’re still a little high, but that’s likely a function of rolling out the work. As predicted, this is a healthy normalization. ## Defining the relationship, aka setting some boundaries We’ve covered the reasons that we’ve designed these exclusions in past reports, but here’s the quick and dirty: Period| Drive Count| Drive Days ---|---|--- **Quarterly**| > 100| > 10,000 **Annual**| > 250| > 50,000 **Lifetime**| > 500| >100,000 Regardless of whether or not a given drive model is included in this article’s charts and tables, all of the line item data is included in our Drive Stats dataset which you can download by visiting our Drive Stats page. ## 2025 Annual hard drive failure rates As of the end of 2025, Backblaze was monitoring 349,462 hard drives used to store data. We removed 4,176 boot drives and 1,090 hard drives from consideration as they did not meet the annual criteria we have defined. This leaves us with 344,196 drives divided across 30 different drive models. The table below shows the AFRs for 2025 for this collection of drives. **Backblaze Hard Drive Failure Rates for 2025** Reporting period January 1, 2025–December 31, 2025 inclusive Drive models with drive count > 250 and drive days > 50,000 in 2025 ### Notes and observations * **The annual AFR is down:** This year finishes strong at 1.36%, down from 1.55% in 2024. Still those paying attention to the quarterly AFR have seen some volatility in that number. * **Nobody made it out unscathed:** There are zero 0 failures. * **But, let’s talk about it:** These are the drives that averaged less than two failures per quarter (though, not necessarily evenly distributed when you look at the data). * HGST HMS5C4040BLE640 4TB: 5 failures * Seagate ST12000NM000J 12TB: 4 failures * Seagate ST14000NM000J 14TB: 7 failures * Seagate ST16000NM002J 16TB: 1 failure * Toshiba MG09ACA16TE 16TB: 3 failures * WDC WUH722626ALE6L4 26TB: 1 failures. * Note that this drive is in its first quarter of life, so it’s hard to call this significant yet. And, all those drive tickets and models mean lots and lots of work—we wrote a whole article on that front, but here’s a breakdown of hours spent in each data center. And here’s an even more interesting slice, from a drive perspective: Yes, you’ll see some funky drive sizes on that list; it’s inclusive of all of our drives, not just the hard drives we include in this report. ## Comparing Drive Stats for 2023, 2024, and 2025 Let’s take a look back at the previous years’ annual AFRs to get a sense of how 2025 compares: **Three Year Comparison of Annual Backblaze Hard Drive Failure Rates** For drive models with > 250 drives as of 12/31/25 and drive models with > 50,000 drive days in 2025 Data for each year is inclusive of that year. ### Notes and observations * **The annual AFR is down to 1.36%.** We haven’t seen those numbers since 2022 (1.37%). Cool! * Slicing our data by drive size shows how impactful the shift to high capacity drives really is: based on the current quarterly data, our drive size breakdown looks like this: * 0–12TB: 25.13% * 14–16TB: 52.06% * 20TB+: 22.81% This is an already long report, so in the interest of time, we’ll just say this: There are multiple factors that go into how and why things are changing, including the average age of drives within our cohort, how much drive technology has improved over the years, how drives on the market have gotten bigger over time while the cost per GB has also dropped, and how the current demand for drives has been changing some of those things. If that sentence sounds confusing, welcome to the world of enterprise drive buying. But, as always, we have to contextualize the real data we see with the way we source and use drives. ## Lifetime hard drive failure rates **Backblaze Lifetime Hard Drive Failure Rates** Reporting period ending December 31, 2025 inclusive Drive models with > 500 drives and > 100,000 lifetime drive days ### Notes and observations * **Ol’ faithful:** Lifetime AFR is 1.30% this quarter, and there’s been no significant change in that number for quite some time. * **Say hi to the new guy:** The Toshiba MG11ACA24TE 24TB made the cut for the lifetime table. Last quarter, we deployed another 2,400 of these, bringing us to 4,806 drives total. ## The Hard Drive dataset (and beyond) Thank you, as always, for making it through ~2,500 or so words to examine the fun side of data. Here’s our standard fine print: The complete dataset used to create the tables and charts in this report is available on our Hard Drive Test Data page. You can download and use this data for free for your own purpose. All we ask are three things: 1. You cite Backblaze as the source if you use the data; 2. You accept that you are solely responsible for how you use the data, and; 3. You do not sell this data itself to anyone; it is free. If you’re a new Drive Stats fan, consider signing up for the newsletter. If you’re not ready for that kind of commitment, sound off in the comments section below or reach out directly to us to let us know what you’re working on. Happy investigating!

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2025 🙂

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Tony Thomas

@tony10000.bsky.social

1 month ago

"Storage Wars: Why I’m Going Back to Hard Drives" tonythomas.net?p=118 #HardDrive #HD #NVMe #SSD #Storage

EigenwereldNL

@eigenwereldnl.bsky.social

1 month ago

Check your hard drive health before it starts to fail - S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics eigenwereld.nl/nieuws.php?i... #pc #computers #hardware #harddrive #maintenance