Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026(backblaze.com)
286 points by HieronymusBosch | 97 comments
Backblaze blog post reporting hard drive reliability and failure rate statistics from its data centers for Q2 2026.
#hard-drives on Hacker News
9 stories tagged hard-drives, newest first.
Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB(tomshardware.com)
355 points by doener | 237 comments
Tom's Hardware article on Helldivers 2 cutting its PC install size from 154GB to 23GB by removing duplicated game data originally meant to help mechanical hard drives.
Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs(guru3d.com)
981 points by baobun | 628 comments
Guru3D news article reporting that Synology has reversed its policy restricting third-party HDDs in its 2025 NAS models after sales dropped sharply.
Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)
392 points by nee1r | 267 comments
Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs(bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
338 points by todsacerdoti | 147 comments
A Big Data Stream newsletter article explaining how AWS S3 achieves 1 PB/s throughput and 150M QPS using commodity hard drives.
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move(servethehome.com)
586 points by motiejus | 323 comments
ServeTheHome article by Patrick Kennedy criticizing Synology's move to restrict its NAS units to Synology-branded hard drives.
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024(backblaze.com)
592 points by TangerineDream | 185 comments
Backblaze blog post presenting its annual hard drive reliability and failure rate statistics for 2024.
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures(louwrentius.com)
391 points by louwrentius | 271 comments
Blog post reviewing a self-built 71 TiB ZFS NAS with twenty-four 4 TB drives that has run for 10 years without a single drive failure.
![Screenshot of tom7.org: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/8/31/16800c55-0542-48d6-af46-c2484cede76a.jpg)
Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video](tom7.org)
395 points by pabs3 | 69 comments
Tom 7's project page for "Harder Drive," a SIGBOVIK 2022 paper and video about absurd ways to build hard drives that store data in unusual places.