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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
| Quarter | Drive-days | Failures | Failure rate / year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2023 | 1,800 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2023 | 1,780 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2023 | 1,840 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q4 2023 | 1,839 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q1 2024 | 1,820 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2024 | 1,819 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2024 | 1,840 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q4 2024 | 1,838 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q1 2025 | 1,799 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2025 | 1,818 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2025 | 1,825 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q4 2025 | 1,839 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q1 2026 | 1,788 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2026 | 1,819 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2026 | 1,835 | 0 | 0.00% |
Single quarters with few drive-days swing widely; the overall figure above is the dependable one.
All 10 TB hard drives compared
| Grade | Model | Type | Size | Failure rate / year | Drives in use | Drive-years | Failures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |