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Backblaze's Q2 2026 hard-drive analysis puts the annualized failure rate at 1.73%
Backblaze reports 1,498 failures among 354,415 hard drives included in its analysis. Ten of 31 drive models had annualized failure rates above 3%.
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Backblaze reports a 1.73% annualized failure rate for Q2 2026, based on 1,498 failures among 354,415 hard drives included in its analysis. Ten of 31 models had rates above 3%, and drives of 20TB or more made up more than 25% of the dataset. Backblaze says it had no SMR drives in its fleet at the time of the report.
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