All drives › Seagate

Seagate IronWolf ZA250NM10002 250 GB failure rate and reliability

A Grade A: Excellent

Backblaze logged 510 drive-years on the Seagate IronWolf ZA250NM10002 from Q1 2023 to Q3 2026, with 201 in service at the end of that period. In that time 0 drives failed, an annualised failure rate of 0.00%.

That is 100% lower than the 1.52% average across every drive in the same data, which earns it grade A (excellent).

Among the 7 graded 250 GB SSDs it ranks 1 of 7 for reliability.

Failure rate / year
0.00%
Average, all drives
1.52%
Drives in use
201
Drive-years
510
Failures
0
Capacity
250 GB
Type
SSD
Model number
IronWolf ZA250NM10002

Failure rate by quarter

QuarterDrive-daysFailuresFailure rate / year
Q1 20234,64900.00%
Q2 20236,78400.00%
Q3 20238,82900.00%
Q4 202310,74400.00%
Q1 202410,88300.00%
Q2 202411,22900.00%
Q3 202411,87400.00%
Q4 202412,29700.00%
Q1 202512,74400.00%
Q2 202513,41100.00%
Q3 202514,46100.00%
Q4 202515,27700.00%
Q1 202616,54000.00%
Q2 202617,76500.00%
Q3 202618,49400.00%

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

All 250 GB SSDs compared

GradeModelTypeSizeFailure rate / yearDrives in useDrive-yearsFailures
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