Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Presented by Stephanie Doyle, Sr. Market Intelligence Manager & Laquie Campbell, Sr. Product Marketing Manager

The latest Drive Stats report is here. Join Stephanie Doyle and Laquie Campbell, as they examine reliability data from more than 341,000 production hard drives operating in our cloud storage environment.

Stephanie and Laquie will review Q1 2026 annualized and lifetime failure rates, discuss trends across today's highest-capacity drives, and share a behind-the-scenes look at an unusual investigation that uncovered important lessons about drive qualification, failure detection, and operating storage at hyperscale. You'll also learn how proactive operational decisions can reduce risk before failures become widespread.