Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

Backblaze manages 305,180 drives with a focus on data drives performance and failure rates throughout 2024, revealing an overall improvement in annualized failure rates from 1.70% in 2023 to 1.57% in 2024. The company has successfully integrated new high-capacity 24TB Seagate drives while phasing out older 4TB models, demonstrating their ongoing storage optimization strategy.