Backblaze Q2 drive stats show annualized failure rate rises to 1.73%

Bitget2026/09/29 13:02

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Backblaze published its Q2 2026 Drive Stats analysis covering more than 350,000 production hard drives across its storage cloud.
Annualized failure rate rose to 1.73% from 1.24% in Q1; lifetime AFR edged up to 1.41%.
Three models breached a 6.95% outlier threshold; results were skewed by older drives and small model populations.
Drives of 20TB and above exceeded 25% of the fleet, signaling deployment concentration at higher capacities.
Report flagged SMR as a potential capacity lever, though none are in the current fleet; future additions will be tracked.

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Backblaze Q2 drive stats show annualized failure rate rises to 1.73%

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