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Let me start off by saying I am a Backblaze customer and I LOVE these posts and use them as my bible for buying drives for my NAS/Media Server.

With that said this is going to sound a little nitpicky but why isn't the publication date anywhere on this article? I've noticed a growing number of blogs not putting the publish date anywhere on the blog page which makes it really hard to know if what they say is still valid. In this case you can infer from the dates of the drives they tested that it was published in 2015 but a number of blogs don't have those clues in the blog to let you know when it was posted. Normally you can look at the URL to see the date but BB uses slugs off /blog/ so you can't get the date from there either.



Backblaze engineer here, the blog folks are trying to fix it right now. I also hate "evergreen" blog posts that don't include a date, I wasn't aware we were doing that. :-(


Backblaze blog folk here -> change is hard :-(


Thanks! You guys rock, I love your posts and product.


Important New Bulletin -> There are now dates on the individual blog posts.


I'm feeling foolish for not reading it and purchasing four Seagate Barracuda 7200.14s.

I had no failures so far but with a 50% failure rate it's bound to happen soon


As someone with 8x3TB Seagate's I feel your pain. My new build will only use 4TB+ Seagate's or HGST (But they are pricey).




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