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HGST HUH721010ALE600 10 TB failure rate and reliability

– Not graded: too little data

Backblaze logged 75 drive-years on the HGST HUH721010ALE600 from Q1 2023 to Q3 2026, with 20 in service at the end of that period. In that time 0 drives failed, an annualised failure rate of 0.00%.

That is too little running time to grade: we require 100,000 drive-days, and this model has 27,299. Treat the rate as a rough indication only.

Failure rate / year
0.00%
Average, all drives
1.52%
Drives in use
20
Drive-years
75
Failures
0
Capacity
10 TB
Type
HDD
Model number
HUH721010ALE600

Failure rate by quarter

QuarterDrive-daysFailuresFailure rate / year
Q1 20231,80000.00%
Q2 20231,78000.00%
Q3 20231,84000.00%
Q4 20231,83900.00%
Q1 20241,82000.00%
Q2 20241,81900.00%
Q3 20241,84000.00%
Q4 20241,83800.00%
Q1 20251,79900.00%
Q2 20251,81800.00%
Q3 20251,82500.00%
Q4 20251,83900.00%
Q1 20261,78800.00%
Q2 20261,81900.00%
Q3 20261,83500.00%

Single quarters with few drive-days swing widely; the overall figure above is the dependable one.

All 10 TB hard drives compared

GradeModelTypeSizeFailure rate / yearDrives in useDrive-yearsFailures
F Seagate ST10000NM0086 HDD 10 TB 5.80% 934 3,914 227
– Seagate ST10000NM001G HDD 10 TB 0.00% 28 105 0
– HGST HUH721010ALE600 HDD 10 TB 0.00% 20 75 0