# Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST

> Economists Christoph Siemroth of the University of Essex and Yeomyung Park of Sungkyunkwan University have published a peer-reviewed IEEE study that re-crunches 12 years of Backblaze's public drive data, covering…

- **Source:** [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/peer-reviewed-study-of-443000-backblaze-drivers-ranks-hgst-most-reliable-and-toshiba-least?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a80d6eac05bbdba4eeedce3)
- **Published:** 2026-08-15
- **Category:** Gaming
- **Tags:** #drives #hgst #toshiba #rate #seagate #backblaze #fail #finds
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