Backblaze reveals failure rates for hard drives in 2021, releases an SSD report for the first time

Last month, cloud storage and data backup company Backblaze released its 2021 Annual Report for hard drive failure rates. Like in previous years, the report focused on failure rates for hard disk drives (HDD). However, yesterday, for the first time, Backblaze released a special follow-up to its 2021 Annual Report focused on solid-state drives (SSD). Looking first at the standard report on HDD storage, Backblaze ended 2021 with a total of 203,928 data drives under its management. All the data dri...