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A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB
A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB Large cloud storage operators track their hard drives every day, recording which units keep running and which ones drop off the racks. Backblaze does this at scale, and its Q1 2026 report covers a fleet built for continuous use. The analysis covered 341,263 hard drives, after boot drives and a small group of units that missed the reporting thresholds were set aside. The pool spans capacities from 4TB to past 20TB. The quarterly annualized failure rate came to 1.24%. That figure rose from the prior quarter and settled under the level of a year earlier. Across the whole fleet, the lifetime failure rate stands at 1.39%, a steadier long-run gauge of how the hardware holds up. Newer, higher-capacity hardware carried much of the load. The company added more than ten thousand drives during the period, most of them holding more than 20TB each. This young pool posted an annualized failure rate of 0.85%, strong for freshly deployed equipment. No new drive models joined the fleet this quarter, an outcome the company calls rare given that new models arrived in six of the past eight quarters. Several existing models ran clean, with the HGST HUH728080ALE600 and two others recording zero failures over the period. Failure counts and failure rates tell separate stories. The Seagate ST16000NM000J logged a single failure and still posted a 3.61% annualized rate, a result driven by a pool that has dwindled to about 130 units. One drop from a small group moves the percentage a long way. Several other models logged just one failure each across the quarter, among them the Toshiba MG09ACA16TE and a pair of Seagate drives in the 12TB to 14TB range. Their raw failure counts look calm, and their rates stay low because their populations remain large. Backblaze counts failures with a C++ program that gathers SMART statistics at the end of each day. A drive present one day and absent the next gets logged as a failure, with a lookback window that reverses the call if the serial number returns within the quarter. The reported rates, author Stephanie Doyle wrote, come down to people “actively managing failure and risk.” The method depends on a drive appearing in the pool the day before, which leaves day-one failures outside its reach. Some drives give out on their first day in a data center, and the counter can miss them. Day-one failures have probably gone under-recorded across the program’s history. Drive qualification before deployment keeps such cases rare, so the effect on the published figures stays small. The complete dataset remains available for download.
helpnetsecurity.comJul 17, 2026extracted
Obsidian Security unveils end-to-end SaaS supply chain security to stop integration-led breaches
Obsidian Security unveils end-to-end SaaS supply chain security to stop integration-led breaches Obsidian Security announced end-to-end SaaS supply chain security solution, empowering organizations to monitor, control and contain the security risk hiding inside interconnected SaaS ecosystems. Companies depend on hundreds of SaaS applications to operate their business. The security threat posed by these interconnected SaaS applications is growing exponentially with major breaches like the Salesloft-Drift Supply Chain attack that impacted over 700 organizations last year. Obsidian Security is launching a new solution that secures the SaaS supply chain across its full lifecycle, bringing together integration risk visibility, proactive prevention, early breach detection and impact forensics, all in a single, unified platform. “When a SaaS vendor or integration is compromised, SOC teams typically learn of these incidents through delayed vendor disclosures,” said Joseph Gothelf, VP, Cybersecurity, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. “In the absence of continuous visibility into the entire SaaS ecosystem, especially unauthorized activity between SaaS applications, we are looking at a huge data breach waiting to happen. The new end-to-end SaaS Supply Chain security capabilities from Obsidian are a much-needed solution to an emerging risk most organizations are unprepared for.” “We need continuous, deep visibility into our entire SaaS ecosystem, including the known and particularly the ‘shadow’ integrations moving data between apps. Obsidian’s end-to-end SaaS Supply Chain security provides the proactive visibility organizations need to stay ahead of these emerging threats and help ensure our digital infrastructure remains resilient,” said Grace Liu, SVP and CIO, Seagate Technology. SaaS environments are interconnected through OAuth grants, API keys, automation platforms, and increasingly, autonomous AI agents embedded across business workflows. Every integration extends trust, often far beyond what security teams can easily see. When even one SaaS app, integration or AI agent is compromised, that risk can propagate across the entire environment, turning a single weak link into broad data exposure. Current security and compliance tools focus on network security, endpoint agents or identity providers and rely on point-in-time assessments that don’t account for permission drift, expanding scopes, or how integration activity changes over time. This is where Obsidian Security has been a market leader offering the unique capability to continuously discover SaaS-to-SaaS integrations unlike any of its competitors. Obsidian expands into the next phase of SaaS supply chain defence, delivering three new capabilities: Full visibility into SaaS integration risk: Compared to endpoint or human to SaaS vendors, Obsidian unifies identity, permissions, OAuth scopes and activity data into a single coherent model, allowing organizations to not only see what an app can access but how it behaves across users, geographies and services. With this clarity, teams can quickly identify risky or inactive integrations, prioritize integrations in order of criticality, and safely take action like revoking access or blocking integrations before they are abused. Organizations can now reduce exposure at the source by identifying and restricting which users are able to grant and authorize new SaaS integrations, enforcing least privilege and limiting the introduction of risky connections before they spread. Early detection and mitigation of SaaS supply chain compromise: Powered by the Obsidian Knowledge Graph and threat intelligence drawn from proprietary research and real-world incident response across our customer base, Obsidian extends its network effects to SaaS integrations, enriching detection with shared intelligence on the IP addresses used by integrations today and soon baselining normal versus suspicious data movement across SaaS environments. By baselining normal behavior across identities, APIs and integrations, Obsidian surfaces attacks in real time, exposing abuse that traditional tools miss. Rapid breach containment and remediation: Obsidian introduces customized supply chain breach notifications tailored to each customer’s SaaS environment. When an integration is implicated in an incident, teams receive clear impact summaries showing affected tenants, downstream exposure, and suspicious activity tied directly to their data and applications. Security teams can quickly see what was accessed, contain exposure before it spreads, and remediate with confidence, dramatically reducing time to resolution without unnecessary disruption. “SaaS environments were never designed to operate as sprawling supply chains of automated integrations and AI agents,” said Hasan Imam, Chief Executive Officer, Obsidian Security. “What started as simple app connections have become critical business pathways and attackers are exploiting that trust. As AI agents gain autonomous access and link multiple SaaS applications together, the blast radius of a single compromised integration grows exponentially. With the new SaaS-to-SaaS security capabilities, we are deepening our commitment to help customers innovate with speed and agility without sacrificing security.”
helpnetsecurity.comJan 22, 2026extracted
Acronis Archival Storage brings compliance-ready, S3-compatible cold storage to MSPs
Acronis Archival Storage brings compliance-ready, S3-compatible cold storage to MSPs Acronis announced the launch of Acronis Archival Storage, a long-term, compliant, and cost-efficient data storage and protection solution designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their small-to-medium business (SMBs) customers. With Acronis Archival Storage, users can retain large amounts of data securely, affordably, and with fast accessibility when it matters most. Acronis Archival Storage enables users to store infrequently accessed data with S3-compatible object storage, integrated directly into Acronis’ unified billing and management system. The new solution offers the reliability, durability, and predictable pricing model MSPs need to meet customer demands and long-term retention requirements. “For many customers, regulations and industry best practices require data to be retained for years,” said Gaidar Magdanurov, President at Acronis. “With Acronis Archival Storage, MSPs can now provide their clients with long-term storage built for compliance readiness, cost predictability and ease of use. Native integration with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud makes using archival storage effortless.” Key features and benefits: S3-compatible object storage integrated with Acronis billing for unified management. Millisecond retrieval, 11×9 durability, and 99.5% availability for dependable long-term access. Encryption and immutability (WORM) to ensure data integrity and compliance. Predictable TCO with no egress or API fees eliminating surprise cloud costs. Compliance-ready and designed to complement warm backup storage for regulated industries. Simple setup and maintenance with preconfigured plans, S3 API support, and integrated controls. Global reach with seven strategically located data centers for improved connectivity and compliance coverage. As businesses face growing regulatory pressure to preserve data for extended periods, traditional storage options have become increasingly costly and cumbersome. Tape-based solutions are slow and difficult to search, while public cloud options often lead to unpredictable egress and API fees. Acronis Archival Storage eliminates these challenges by offering a low-maintenance, cost-stable solution that ensures fast data access when needed, whether for audits, investigations, or AI-driven data analysis. “Data’s true value is realized when organizations can securely preserve, access, and harness it for innovation and insight,” said Melyssa Banda, SVP, Edge Enterprise Storage and Services at Seagate. “Our partnership with Acronis ensures archival data is protected and accessible for compliance, AI and more, with economic predictability and peace of mind—secured by Seagate Lyve Cloud.” For MSPs, Acronis Archival Storage represents a new way to differentiate their offerings and build predictable margins through integrated billing and zero egress costs. By combining archival capabilities with Acronis’ cyber protection ecosystem, service providers can deliver end-to-end data management that scales across customer needs, now with cold storage tier.
helpnetsecurity.comJan 13, 2026extracted
What the latest data reveals about hard drive reliability
What the latest data reveals about hard drive reliability What really counts as a hard drive failure? That’s the question at the center of Backblaze’s Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives across its global data centers. The latest findings build on more than a decade of data that has made Backblaze one of the most transparent sources on drive reliability for IT teams, researchers, and data professionals. Backblaze hard drive failure rates for Q3 2025 “After more than ten years and billions of drive days, we’ve built one of the largest collections of drive reliability data in the world,” said Gleb Budman, CEO of Backblaze. “This quarter, we’re going deeper, and showing exactly how we spot drive failures and turning that insight into something anyone can use.” The quarterly failure rate ticked up slightly, from 1.36% in Q2 to 1.55% in Q3, closely matching the 2024 annualized failure rate (AFR) of 1.57%. Four models had zero recorded failures this quarter: the Seagate HMS5C4040BLE640 (4TB), Seagate ST8000NM000A (8TB), Toshiba MG09ACA16TE (16TB), and the newly added Toshiba MG11ACA24TE (24TB). High-capacity drives (20TB and up) continued to grow in use, adding nearly 8,000 units and now making up 21% of Backblaze’s active drive pool. The lifetime AFR held steady at 1.31%, consistent with the past two quarters. This quarter’s report takes a closer look at how Backblaze determines when a drive has actually failed. The company uses SMART data, internal monitoring tools, and automated tracking systems to tell true mechanical failures apart from temporary removals. A drive is marked as failed if it is flagged in work tracking systems or does not return to service by the end of the quarter. One outlier stood out: the Toshiba MG08ACA16TEY (16TB), which posted a 16.95% AFR. The spike, Backblaze explained, came from an infrastructure upgrade that temporarily pulled several drives from operation, not from actual hardware failures. The company expects those figures to level out in future reports.
helpnetsecurity.comNov 12, 2025extracted