Drive population by manufacturer

Drive Stats related podcasts and webinars

Webinar

• Q1 2026 Drive Stats Report

Webinar

• 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report

Webinar

• The Stats Lab: Inside the Data Driving Cloud Performance

Webinar

• BrightTalk: The New Bathtub Curve

Webinar

• Def Con 33 - Data Duplication Village - Tracking 300k+ Drives

Webinar (Contains instructions for querying the Drive Stats data in Iceberg table format)

• BrightTalk: Modern Data Lakes with Apache Iceberg on Backblaze B2

Webinar

• BrightTalk: Drive Stats Q2 2025

LinkedIn Live: Backblaze Drive Stats Q1 2025

• Backblaze Drive Stats Q1 2025

Webinar

• BrightTalk: Drive Stats for Q1 2025

Webinar

• BrightTalk: Drive Stats for 2024

Drive Stats quarterly reports and related articles

We publish our analyses, observations, and insights based on the Drive Stats dataset on a regular basis on the Backblaze Blog which includes the quarterly Hard Drive Stats reports and SSD reports, and related topics such as the cost of storage, bathtub curve, enterprise-level drive management in our data centers, and more.

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Overview of the Drive Stats dataset

How we collect the drive data

Every day at Backblaze data center, we take a snapshot of each operational drive. This snapshot includes basic drive information along with the S.M.A.R.T. statistics reported by that drive. The daily snapshot of one drive is one record or row of data. All of the drive snapshots for a given day are collected into a CSV file consisting of a row for each active drive. Each day this file is named in the format YYYY-MM-DD.csv; for example, 2024-03-25.csv.

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How the Drive Stats data is organized

The Drive Stats schema is comprised of fields Backblaze includes for each drive record and the raw and normalized S.M.A.R.T. attributes reported by each drive.

• Download a CSV file of the current Drive Stats schema: https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/Drive_Stats_Schema_Current.csv
• Download a .csv file of the Drive Stats schema changes from Q1 2018 onward: https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Backblaze-Hard-Drive-Data/Drive_Stats_Schema_2018_Onward.csv

Please note, schema changes from quarter to quarter do occur, so you should always check for such changes each quarter and align the data to reflect any changes.

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How you can use the Drive Stats data

The Drive Stats dataset is open source and available for you to download below, all we ask is is the following:

1. Cite Backblaze as the source if you use the data,
2. Accept that you are solely responsible for how you use the data,
3. You may sell derivative works based on the data, but
4. You can not sell the data itself to anyone; it is free.

Querying the Drive Stats dataset

As well as the compressed CSV files listed below, we maintain a copy of the Drive Stats dataset in Apache Iceberg table format. You should be able to use the following read-only credentials to query the dataset from any tools that support Apache Iceberg:

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Application Key ID (AWS Key ID): 0045f0571db506a0000000017

Application Key (AWS Secret Key): K004Fs/bgmTk5dgo6GAVm2Waj3Ka+TE

Endpoint URL: https://s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com

Region: us-west-004

Bucket: drivestats-iceberg

Path Prefix: drivestats

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See the blog post Iceberg on Backblaze B2 for comprehensive instructions on how to directly query the Drive Stats dataset from Trino, Snowflake, and DuckDB.

Downloading the Backblaze Drive Stats dataset

Beginning in 2016 we uploaded the Drive Stats dataset for a given quarter. Prior to 2016 the datasets uploaded were annual (2013, 2014, and 2015). Each item listed below is a ZIP file of containing the .csv files for the named quarter or year.