Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Reliability engineers use the "bathtub curve" to describe expected failure rates - from factory defects, random failures and more.
The traditional “bathtub curve” has long shaped how we think about these drive failures: high early defects, a stable middle life, then a wear-out period. But 13 years of Drive Stats data and three different analyses in 2013, 2021, and 2025 challenge that view. In our full webinar, we explore how real-world drive failure trends are shifting and what that means for tech.
Watch the full webinar now to see how we ran the numbers, and what it means for the state of storage more broadly: youtube.com/watch?v=FfgUfvp4MFs
Reliability engineers use the "bathtub curve" to describe expected failure rates - from factory defects, random failures and more.
The traditional “bathtub curve” has long shaped how we think about these drive failures: high early defects, a stable middle life, then a wear-out period. But 13 years of Drive Stats data and three different analyses in 2013, 2021, and 2025 challenge that view. In our full webinar, we explore how real-world drive failure trends are shifting and what that means for tech.
Watch the full webinar now to see how we ran the numbers, and what it means for the state of storage more broadly: youtube.com/watch?v=FfgUfvp4MFs
