Backblaze company Service , has repeatedly note the interesting statistics on failures of hard drives, has published a report on failures of 3TB drives from Seagate company - models ST3000DM001. It's hard drives with a speed of 7200. / Min. Of 4829 copies, acquired from 2012 to March 2015 remained only 10% of the drives.
By November 2011 it became clear that the flood in Thailand for the hard drive industry - it's a disaster for years. Most affected factory was those of Western Digital. Its shop was flooded with two-meter layer of water. Seagate is not subjected directly to water, but faced with a deficit of components . Hard drives have become a scarce commodity, and price rose sharply. Along the way, Seagate reduced warranty from 3 years to one year and began to impose onerous conditions on long-term contracts for the purchase. Today we know that this did not help. Just a year and a half after that, the company Western Digital has taken the place as HDD market leader .
The first problems began in May 2013, when in a short time denied 27 drives. If you look over the years, 2.7% drive refused to work in 2012, 5.4% - in 2013 and 47.2% - in 2014. By the end of March 2015 broke down in 1423 hard drives from 4829, which corresponds to 29.5% failure . Below you can see the statistics, which compares the number of failures compared with other models.
Backblaze note that all defective drives Seagate ST3000DM001 issued since the third quarter of 2011. Flooding in Thailand, we recall what happened in October 2011. Buying a hard drive Seagate, the company recommends to look at the date of production or ... select a different model. Related Products :
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