"Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2021/
They are moving to SSD drives for boot drives. They published the
Lifetime failure rates. 8 out of the 1,518 SSD boot drives failed
(0.65%). 559 out of the 1,669 hard boot drives failed (6.04%).
On Tue, 4 May 2021 16:39:00 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
"Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2021/
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They are moving to SSD drives for boot drives. They published the
Lifetime failure rates. 8 out of the 1,518 SSD boot drives failed
(0.65%). 559 out of the 1,669 hard boot drives failed (6.04%).
It seems that I've forgotten how to calculate percentages.
8 out of 1518 appears to be about 0.52%, versus 0.65%
559 out of 1669 appears to be about 33.5%, versus 6.04%
I guess I should go read the article to see how they calculate that.
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