What 10 Years of Drive Stats Data Can Tell Us About Hard Drive and SSD Reliability

Explore a comprehensive 52-minute conference talk from the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2023 examining Backblaze's decade-long study of hard drive and SSD performance data. Dive into detailed analysis of SMART statistics and failure rates across 250,000+ storage devices, covering over 100 different drive models. Learn how drive size, manufacturer, temperature, class, and type impact reliability and failure rates. Discover how data scientists are leveraging machine learning and AI to create statistically accurate drive failure predictions. Gain practical insights into optimizing storage infrastructure costs based on real-world data. Presented by Andrew Klein from Backblaze, master the key factors affecting exabyte-scale data storage management, understand drive failure patterns and predictability, and acquire actionable knowledge about hard drive and SSD reliability in cloud storage environments.