What Backblaze’s Q2 2026 drive stats say about buying big hard drives
The quarter in numbers Backblaze published its Q2 2026 Drive Stats report on September 29, and the headline number moved the wrong way. The quarterly annualized failure rate hit 1.73%, up from 1.24% in Q1 and the highest the report has shown in a while. The lifetime figure barely budged, ticking up to 1.41% across […]