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Seagate ST14000NM002J 14 TB failure rate and reliability
– Not graded: too little data
Backblaze logged 30 drive-years on the Seagate ST14000NM002J from Q1 2023 to Q3 2026, with 24 in service at the end of that period. In that time 1 drive failed, an annualised failure rate of 3.37%.
That is too little running time to grade: we require 100,000 drive-days, and this model has 10,829. Treat the rate as a rough indication only.
- Failure rate / year
- 3.37%
- Average, all drives
- 1.52%
- Drives in use
- 24
- Drive-years
- 30
- Failures
- 1
- Capacity
- 14 TB
- Type
- HDD
- Model number
- ST14000NM002J
Failure rate by quarter
| Quarter | Drive-days | Failures | Failure rate / year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | 193 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q1 2025 | 360 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2025 | 422 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2025 | 995 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q4 2025 | 2,174 | 1 | 16.79% |
| Q1 2026 | 2,174 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q2 2026 | 2,273 | 0 | 0.00% |
| Q3 2026 | 2,238 | 0 | 0.00% |
Single quarters with few drive-days swing widely; the overall figure above is the dependable one.
All 14 TB hard drives compared
| Grade | Model | Type | Size | Failure rate / year | Drives in use | Drive-years | Failures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | Western Digital WUH721414ALE6L4 | HDD | 14 TB | 0.71% | 8,522 | 31,964 | 226 |
| B | Toshiba MG07ACA14TA | HDD | 14 TB | 1.15% | 36,697 | 140,978 | 1,620 |
| C | Seagate ST14000NM001G | HDD | 14 TB | 1.51% | 10,413 | 39,759 | 600 |
| C | Seagate ST14000NM000J | HDD | 14 TB | 1.56% | 497 | 835 | 13 |
| C | Toshiba MG07ACA14TEY | HDD | 14 TB | 1.70% | 965 | 2,944 | 50 |
| F | Seagate ST14000NM0138 | HDD | 14 TB | 6.22% | 1,159 | 5,003 | 311 |
| – | Seagate ST14000NM0018 | HDD | 14 TB | 6.92% | 59 | 231 | 16 |
| – | Seagate ST14000NM002J | HDD | 14 TB | 3.37% | 24 | 30 | 1 |