It's a shame that as large capacities are so expensive for many the stats just don't seem as relevant to me.
I used to be able to point to the table and say "these are the drives I own" and now it's "these are the drives I might own one day".
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It's a shame that as large capacities are so expensive for many the stats just don't seem as relevant to me.
I used to be able to point to the table and say "these are the drives I own" and now it's "these are the drives I might own one day".
Yepp. Personally I'm using multiple 6TBs at the moment - my next jump would have been replacing those with 10/12 TB or larger, but these stats are making me reconsider.
Replacements would get expensive fast IMO, especially if they're failing just outside the warranty period like Backblaze's ones
Wow those Seagate 14 TB numbers look pretty terrible (even ignoring the model with a tiny sample size), I guess I'm lucky that Toshiba drives are the cheapest here so that what we have the most of