Aw, snap: Independent disk drive failure rates from Backblaze

The good, the bad, and the ugly rusty spinners revealed

Backup and cloud storage provider Backblaze's latest quarterly disk failure rate table shows WD 6TB drives had an 11.31 per cent annualised failure rate in the third 2016 quarter, with Seagate 4TB drives spinning into the ground almost as often, with a 10.2 per cent rate."