Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023At the end of Q3 2023, Backblaze was monitoring 263,992 hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) in our data centers around the world. Of that number, 4,459 are boot drives, with 3,242 being SSDs and 1,217 being HDDs. The failure rates for the SSDs are analyzed in the SSD Edition: 2023 Drive Stats review. That leaves us with 259,533 HDDs that we’ll focus on in this report. We’ll revie
