Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet

HGST drives fared best, but vendor was snaffled by Western Digital

Backup specialist Backblaze, which has published hard drive failure statistics quarterly since 2013, says its second-quarter 2020 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) is the lowest ever recorded at 0.81 per cent overall....