![]() To me, as an industry pundit and practitioner in the storage networking industry of almost 30 years, it is blasphemous. This proverb is apt to describe the technical writers of these 2 articles that do not do justice to the readers seeking consultative advice with accurate and correct information to learn. The crab walks sideways but it is just hypocrisy when it teaches its younglings to walk in the proper manner. ![]() In Bahasa Malaysia, or Malay, there is a proverb called “ Seperti ketam mengajar anaknya berjalan betul“. And when such articles are written by outsiders that do not have the DNA and the technology vibe of the industry, it pains me to see these misinformation widespread over the technology readers’ community. Giving out the wrong and inaccurate information is doing the industry a great disservice. Damaging thoughtsīoth the articles from Petapixel and Solutions Review are not good for the storage networking industry. The Solutions Review article which rated Stratoscale as one of the top 14 vendors but appeared unaware that the company has shutdown over a year ago. The problem was one of the 14 vendors, Stratoscale, has shut down 13 months ago before this article was published. It showcased the “ The 14 Top Hyperconverged Infrastructure Vendors for 2021“. Back in January 2021 another article, this time by Solution Review which I did not agree. Outdated informationīesides this Petapixel article boo-boo, there was another one while gave out the inaccurate information. Their 1st gen pods did not have the amount of vibration and heat resistance that their current pods do, and these enterprise drives are in their 1st generation of pod. ![]() Their 1st gen pods are vastly different than their current generation. The content felt regurgitated from another source. Backblaze has gone through numerous revisions and generations of their pod design. The company noted that as of this quarter. At lot of the content felt like it was “ copy-and-paste” with a few comments inserted. Backblaze has released its reliability report for Q1 2016 covering cumulative failure rates both by specific model numbers and by manufacturer. I hate to be nitpicking but the title of the article riled me up so much that I had to be pedantic about what and how it was written. Running through the rows of the table, WDC 14TB (the last row of the table) has an AFR of 0.16% versus 0.23% of the said Seagate 6TB drive, which meant that WDC should be the better performer. Secondly the reporting of the 6TB Seagate disk drive having the “best” AFR % is also wrong. ![]() I did not understand why Petapixel only published their article on the report in April, 3 months later. Backblaze Hard Drive Failure Rates 2020 Reportįirst of all, this report was released in January 2021. ![]()
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