Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

Backblaze, a cloud storage company, has released its quarterly drive stats for Q2 2022, highlighting the failure rates of various hard drives. The company tested over 2,100 drives from 13 different manufacturers, including Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, and HGST. The results show that the average drive failure rate for the quarter was 0.51% for all drives, with some drives from HGST and Toshiba experiencing higher failure rates. The most reliable drives were from Seagate, with a failure rate of 0.23%, and Western Digital's drives had a failure rate of 0.35%. The study also found that the highest failure rate was 3.34% for drives from one HGST model. The data is based on a total of 2,173 drives tested, with the majority being 4TB and 6TB drives.