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Understanding 3TB Hard Drive Failure: Key Insights from Our Storage Pod Data
Dec 11, 2025 - Beginning in January 2012, Backblaze deployed 4,829 Seagate 3TB hard drives, model ST3000DM001, into Backblaze Storage Pods. In our experience, 80% of the
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