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How to Get Your First 1,000 Customers
There are a variety of methods to attract your first 1,000 customers, but launching with the press is my favorite. I’ll explain why and how to do it.
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Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte
For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing curve has flattened out.
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Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
B2 Cloud Storage has now partnered with Packet and ServerCentral to announce compute options. Here’s everything this means for you as a customer.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
Check out the 2022 year-end Drive Stats data, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Our 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off
Backblaze is transitioning from using 4 TB hard drives to using 6 TB hard drives in the Storage Pods we will be deploying over the coming months...
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
A problem that would have been discovered in the future would now be captured by the SMART stats when the process reads that section of disk today.
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Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022
Backblaze wants to be as transparent as possible with our customers about our business. Here’s what you need to know about our drives in Q1 2022.
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Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
Get the details on Storage Pod 6.0 and learn how to build your own data storage server.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016
We take a close look at the hard drive failure rates from 68,813 hard drives that are used in the Backblaze data center.
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Backblaze Drive Stats: 2018 Q3 Hard Drive Failure Rates
Backblaze has 99,636 spinning hard drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models in operation in our data centers.
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Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
Read the Q3 2025 Drive Stats report to see the latest annualized failure rates, and an analysis of how we define failure in the first place.
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Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?
Yes you read that correctly - a 60TB SSD. So what does that mean for cloud backup? Is a 3.6PB storage pod on the horizon? We take a look at the numbers.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017
We take a look at the performance of our 86,529 hard drives and break down the failure rates by manufacturer and model size.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
Backblaze's 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.
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An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum
Nearly 10 years after the first Storage Pod altered the storage landscape the innovation continues to deliver great returns to the market.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017
Since 2013, Backblaze has been showcasing daily statistics from our hard drives. Find out how our drives have been doing throughout 2017 with this blog post.
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Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
You now have the ability to keep updated, changed, and even deleted files in your backups forever by extending version history.
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Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%
Effective immediately B2 download pricing is only $.02/GB. B2 cloud storage pricing is now 1/4th the price of Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure.
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Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018
As of March 31, 2018 we had 100,110 spinning hard drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models (Seagate, HGST, WDC, and Toshiba) in operation in our data centers.
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The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
Helium-filled hard drives attempt to cut down on friction, leading to better performance. We’ve crunched the numbers: how do they actually perform?
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (2010)
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions: Click Here. When we started Backblaze, our goal was to provide unlimited
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Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture
Backblaze Vaults are not only incredibly durable, scalable, and performant, but they dramatically improve availability and operability.
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Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
This review looks at the Q1 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 104,325 data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018
This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for 98,184 hard drives with a focus on consumer vs. enterprise drive reliability.
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Support for IPv6
You can now connect to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage via IPv6. Here's the story of how we deployed it and why that matters for you.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2022
Q3 2022 Drive Stats: Read the latest insights and check out the data.
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A History of Hard Drives
2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the hard drive. Let's look back at how the tech has changed over the years.