{"id":12278,"date":"2014-01-21T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T23:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12278"},"modified":"2014-01-22T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T20:03:22","slug":"what-hard-drive-should-i-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12278","title":{"rendered":"What Hard Drive Should I Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of 2013, we had 27,134 consumer-grade drives spinning in Backblaze Storage Pods<\/a>. The breakdown by brand looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Hard Drives by Manufacturer
\n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brand<\/th>\nNumber
\nof\u00a0Drives<\/th>\n		Terabytes<\/th>\nAverage
\nAge\u00a0in\u00a0Years<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Seagate<\/td>\n12,765<\/td>\n39,576<\/td>\n1.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hitachi<\/td>\n12,956<\/td>\n36,078<\/td>\n2.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Western Digital<\/td>\n2,838<\/td>\n2,581<\/td>\n2.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Toshiba<\/td>\n58<\/td>\n174<\/td>\n0.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samsung<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n3.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via Backblaze Blog \u00bb What Hard Drive Should I Buy?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why do we have the drives we have? Basically, we buy the least expensive drives that will work<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a lot of numbers tossed around in this article that are difficult to summarize.\u00a0 The above table shows the data set they worked from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the end of 2013, we had 27,134 consumer-grade drives spinning in Backblaze Storage Pods. The breakdown by brand looks like this: Hard Drives by Manufacturer Brand Number of\u00a0Drives Terabytes Average Age\u00a0in\u00a0Years Seagate 12,765 39,576 1.4 Hitachi 12,956 36,078 2.0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[475,499,107,674],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage","tag-big-data","tag-hard-drives","tag-reference","tag-reliability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12288,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions\/12288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}