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From: Don Green	11/2/2017 10:37:20 PM
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Consumer drives shown to be more reliable than enterprise drives 3TB pro drives from Seagate and WD are failing faster Seagate hard drives fail with more regularity than those from Western Digital or Hitachi, according to the latest results of an ongoing study by cloud service provider Backblaze. Backblaze released data from 38,000 drives that store more than 100 petabytes in its data center. The research continued to show consumer drives had the same or better reliability compared with more costly enterprise-class drives. Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman said enterprise drives also cost "over 2x more than a consumer drive" so that purchasing the costlier drives even if they did fail less often wouldn't make sense. "Most of the drives we get have a 3-year warranty, making failures a non-issue from a cost perspective for that period," a Backblaze blog stated. "However, even if there were no warranty, a 15% annual failure rate on the consumer desktop drive and a 0% failure rate on the enterprise drive, the breakeven would be 10 years, which is longer than we expect to even run the drives for." computerworld.com

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