HDD reliability stats for 5 years

[aponomarenko]

Interesting results from the Linux-Hardware.org portal:

This picture shows relative number of computers with bad SMARTs depending on the drive vendor (Seagate is less reliable on average). Based on this study: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART

The site has a fork for BSD where we can register our FreeNAS installations to get BSD specific stats in future: https://bsd-hardware.info/

 

[aponomarenko]

Data on the chart is distorted by the difference in popularity of vendors. So the chart just shows absolute numbers of faulty drives in the world, not a failure rate or even reliability of vendors.

Avg. popularity of HDD vendors for last 5 years is the following:

If we divide numbers on the original chart by the popularity rate, then we can get the following failure rates:

7.5% for WDC
7.8% for Toshiba
8% for Seagate
8.6% for Fujitsu
8.8% for HGST
13.3% for Samsung
13.5% for Hitachi
16.7% for MAXTOR