•SiTech AI Team
Backblaze Q2 2026 drive stats: annualized failure rate climbs to 1.73%
Backblaze's Q2 2026 Drive Stats report counted 354,415 hard drives with a 1.73% quarterly failure rate, while the lowest rates came from modern 22TB and 24TB models. It also explains what CMR, SMR and HAMR mean for storage buyers.