Seagate BarraCuda SSD ZA250CM10002 250 GB failure rate and reliability

B Grade B: Good

Backblaze logged 1,889 drive-years on the Seagate BarraCuda SSD ZA250CM10002 from Q1 2023 to Q3 2026, with 458 in service at the end of that period. In that time 14 drives failed, an annualised failure rate of 0.74%.

That is 51% lower than the 1.52% average across every drive in the same data, which earns it grade B (good).

Among the 7 graded 250 GB SSDs it ranks 5 of 7 for reliability.

Failures have fallen: 0.31% over the latest 8 quarters against 1.18% before.

Failure rate / year: 0.74%
Average, all drives: 1.52%
Drives in use: 458
Drive-years: 1,889
Failures: 14
Capacity: 250 GB
Type: SSD
Model number: BarraCuda SSD ZA250CM10002

Failure rate by quarter

Quarter	Drive-days	Failures	Failure rate / year
Q1 2023	49,716	0	0.00%
Q2 2023	49,114	2	1.49%
Q3 2023	50,033	1	0.73%
Q4 2023	49,458	1	0.74%
Q1 2024	47,817	1	0.76%
Q2 2024	46,400	1	0.79%
Q3 2024	46,446	5	3.93%
Q4 2024	45,463	3	2.41%
Q1 2025	44,070	0	0.00%
Q2 2025	44,077	0	0.00%
Q3 2025	44,535	0	0.00%
Q4 2025	44,498	0	0.00%
Q1 2026	43,281	0	0.00%
Q2 2026	42,444	0	0.00%
Q3 2026	42,198	0	0.00%

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

All 250 GB SSDs compared

Grade	Model	Type	Size	Failure rate / year	Drives in use	Drive-years	Failures
A	Seagate IronWolf ZA250NM10002	SSD	250 GB	0.00%	201	510	0
A	Seagate BarraCuda 120 SSD ZA250CM10003	SSD	250 GB	0.20%	1,072	4,095	8
A	Western Digital WDS250G2B0A	SSD	250 GB	0.35%	170	576	2
A	Crucial CT250MX500SSD1	SSD	250 GB	0.36%	683	2,475	9
B	Seagate BarraCuda SSD ZA250CM10002	SSD	250 GB	0.74%	458	1,889	14
C	Seagate SSD	SSD	250 GB	1.33%	97	377	5
F	Western Digital Blue SA510 2.5 250GB	SSD	250 GB	4.80%	140	417	20