Giana posted at 2:20 PM Sun, 17 May 2026 - #4506469

hey! thanks so much for responding, guys!!

and thank you for providing specific HDD brand names.  in doing my research and not understanding all the tech/spec meanings, i did stumble across a website that makes a list every year of the drives they're connected to and failure rates.  it was very thorough, but all those numbers and ratios and stuff - well, i just could not digest it all.

For anyone who *does* want to go through that data, I'm sure you're referring to https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/

I also have a Synology NAS. Any single drive can fail.

I mostly backup onto SSDs though, not HDDs.