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HGST HUS728T8TALE6L4 8 TB failure rate and reliability
– Not graded: too little data
Backblaze logged 72 drive-years on the HGST HUS728T8TALE6L4 from Q1 2023 to Q3 2026, with 18 in service at the end of that period. In that time 1 drive failed, an annualised failure rate of 1.39%.
That is too little running time to grade: we require 100,000 drive-days, and this model has 26,183. Treat the rate as a rough indication only.
- Failure rate / year
- 1.39%
- Average, all drives
- 1.52%
- Drives in use
- 18
- Drive-years
- 72
- Failures
- 1
- Capacity
- 8 TB
- Type
- HDD
- Model number
- HUS728T8TALE6L4
Failure rate by quarter
| Quarter | Drive-days | Failures | Failure rate / year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2023 | 1,800 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2023 | 1,782 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2023 | 1,840 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q4 2023 | 1,840 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q1 2024 | 1,819 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2024 | 1,760 | 1 | 20.74% |
| Q3 2024 | 1,748 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q4 2024 | 1,748 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q1 2025 | 1,709 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2025 | 1,729 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2025 | 1,745 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q4 2025 | 1,748 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q1 2026 | 1,629 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2026 | 1,638 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2026 | 1,648 | 0 | 0.00% |
Single quarters with few drive-days swing widely; the overall figure above is the dependable one.
All 8 TB hard drives compared
| Grade | Model | Type | Size | Failure rate / year | Drives in use | Drive-years | Failures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Seagate ST8000NM000A | HDD | 8 TB | 0.37% | 229 | 806 | 3 |
| D | Seagate ST8000DM002 | HDD | 8 TB | 2.15% | 5,927 | 32,297 | 694 |
| D | HGST HUH728080ALE600 | HDD | 8 TB | 2.39% | 101 | 3,554 | 85 |
| D | Seagate ST8000NM0055 | HDD | 8 TB | 2.85% | 12,700 | 50,867 | 1,449 |
| F | HGST HUH728080ALE604 | HDD | 8 TB | 5.53% | 68 | 308 | 17 |
| – | Toshiba HDWF180 | HDD | 8 TB | 4.95% | 47 | 202 | 10 |
| – | Seagate ST8000DM005 | HDD | 8 TB | 1.16% | 15 | 86 | 1 |
| – | HGST HUS728T8TALE6L4 | HDD | 8 TB | 1.39% | 18 | 72 | 1 |