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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (96946)	6/12/2017 3:18:59 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

I don't think drive manufacturer statistics are irrelevant, but performance and reliability for individual drive models is as important, if not more so. Josh * * *

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (96946)	6/12/2017 3:27:55 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 110626

I feel laptop drives will usually fail more often than a similar desktop version just because of the way it is moved around, shutdown and generally roughly handled. Which gives SSD drives an upper hand for laptops along with less power demands. I guess I am lucky with my drives. I have used SCSI drives running 10-15K rpms and also laptop drives running 4200 rpms. I avoid using paired as raid drives mainly because if one drive fails or get corrupted you risk losing everything.

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (96946)	6/12/2017 5:11:18 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats ... << Those stats are for server drives and don't apply to my external hard drives, my largest is a 2.5 inch Toshiba 2TB. >> Those Backblaze stats are for bare consumer grade (not server or enterprise grade) drives spinning 24/7 in Backblaze custom designed storage pods (originally designed by Backblaze for 3.5" Hitachi consumer grade Deskstar drives) before Hitachi's divestiture of all their HDD manufacturing assets assets to Western Digital completed when they started farming drives because nobody else could supply their needs in the needed quantity particularly after the Thailand floods in nid 2011. They have stuck with consumer grade drives and purchase now primarily from Seagate. Neither Toshiba or WDC (either division)have been able to meet their needs in the quantities they need and at the price they are willingh to pay. - Eric L . -