Backblaze sees drive failure rates tick up, asks if AI can help
Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime
Storage06 Aug 2024 | 5
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Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications
If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue
Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023
Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to
Storage13 Feb 2024 | 11
Backblaze starts tracking hot drives as world preps for rising global temperatures
Quarterly stats to show when units exceed manufacturer max temp
Storage14 Nov 2023 | 4
A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report
Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew?
Storage31 Jan 2023 | 39
Backblaze thinks SSDs are more reliable than hard drives
The ones used as boot drives in its datacenters seem to be, but perhaps not over time
Storage13 Sep 2022 | 56
Yes, it's true: Hard drive failures creep up as disks age
Some stats for those wondering when their models will be next
Storage03 Aug 2022 | 12
Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs
But warns sample size is a bit small to leap to big conclusions
Storage04 Mar 2022 | 18
Backblaze, long a champion of home-grown hardware, succumbs to the lure of commodity servers
Exabyte-tending cloud storage outfit’s new data centre was built on Dell storage servers, but its own kit will live on
Storage28 Jun 2021 | 2
Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook
Updated Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?
Storage23 Mar 2021 | 34
Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet
HGST drives fared best, but vendor was snaffled by Western Digital
Storage19 Aug 2020 | 45
Backup bods Backblaze: Disk drive reliability improving
Updated Seagate's spinners stopping spinning more often, though
Storage03 May 2019 | 25
Disk drives suck less than they did a couple of years ago. Which is nice
Cloud backup bod Backblaze: Failure rates fell for high-cap spinners
Storage28 Jan 2019 | 61
Mmm, yes. 11-nines data durability? Mmmm, that sounds good. Except it's virtually meaningless
Analysis No one can agree on how it's calculated
Storage19 Jul 2018 | 35
It's a wrap: Gone Gartner part II, Flashdance and, er, Hardware Hackers
A week in storage mov(i)es... be happy we didn't name-check Failure To Launch
Storage08 May 2018 | 1
Eat your damn storage news, child! Look, we even chopped it up into little digestible chunks
Eat it *shakes fist*
Storage30 Apr 2018 | 4
Aw, snap: Independent disk drive failure rates from Backblaze
The good, the bad, and the ugly rusty spinners revealed
Storage16 Nov 2016 | 5
Backblaze hopes to melt Amazon Glacier customers' hearts
Offers three ‘nines’ SLA and 75% lower price
Storage11 Jul 2016 | 6
Backblaze big data restore. Get this: it involves disk drives
Restore Return Refund program means no-charge restore
Storage28 Jan 2016 | 12
Behold, Backblaze’s public B2 beta blast off
Come in public cloud storage service testers, you know you want to
Storage16 Dec 2015 | 12
Backblaze beats Bezos: Backup biz boasts bettering AWS bit bucket
Lower online cloud storage bills than Glacier
Storage22 Sep 2015 | 3
Consumer disks trump enterprise platters in cloudy reliability study
Spinning results about spinning rust's reliability rates
Storage05 Dec 2013 | 21
Server, server in the rack, when's my disk drive going to crack?
Backblaze's 25,000-drive study scries the future of your storage
Storage12 Nov 2013 | 21
Build your own 180TB NAS for $US1,942.59 (plus disk)
Cloud storage outfit Backblaze again open sources design that influences Netflix's storage
Storage22 Feb 2013 | 14
Cloud company foraged for hard drives to stay afloat
Backblaze employees banned by COSTCO after PLUNDERING stores
Storage11 Oct 2012 | 21
Cloud storage survey FAIL: May have to, er, back up
Comment Doh! Own numbers show local disk costs plummeting
Channel28 Jun 2011 | 17
Biting the hand that feeds IT
