The first thing which stands out relates to brand. Western Digital has more drives on the list than anyone else, with 66 models spanning consumer, NAS, enterprise, and specialist categories. That ...

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Verdict: The Seagate IronWolf Pro ST12000NE0008 12TB NAS Internal Hard Drive stands out with its . Designed for users who demand the best from their devices, Seagate IronWolf Pro ST12000NE0008 12TB ...

Backblaze, which operates hundreds of thousands of HDDs in its data centers, regularly publishes the failure rates of the HDDs it uses. On August 5, 2025, the company released its results for the ...

Cloud storage service provider Backblaze has released data summarizing the failure rates of 312,831 hard disk drives it operates by manufacturer and model in the first quarter of 2025 (January to ...

Years-long testing by BackBlaze has shown that Western Digital’s high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs) are generally the most dependable for enterprise-level data storage, with three of the company’s ...

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