Drive Stats Team – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025 https://noise.getoto.net/2025/11/11/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112462 Read the Q3 2025 Drive Stats report to see the latest annualized failure rates, as well as an analysis of outliers and failure definitions.

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]]> Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve https://noise.getoto.net/2025/10/15/are-hard-drives-getting-better-lets-revisit-the-bathtub-curve/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:47:43 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112325 After 13 years, the data is clear—the bathtub curve does not apply to hard drives. And, more importantly, hard drives are failing less and lasting longer.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025 https://noise.getoto.net/2025/08/05/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2025/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112217 Read the Q2 2025 Drive Stats report to see the latest annualized failure rates, as well as an in-depth look at the 20TB+ drives currently in the Backblaze drive fleet.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2025 https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/13/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/ Tue, 13 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112092 Read the latest failure rates from the Backblaze drive fleet in the Q1 2025 Drive Stats Report.

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