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Surviving Your First Year
For startups the primary goals for that first year are to, 1) set up the company, 2) build and launch your product, and, 3) survive. Here's how to do it.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives.
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Out of Stock: How to Survive the LTO-8 Tape Shortage
If you’re currently using LTO for backup or archive, you have a few options for weathering the LTO-8 shortage. Let's take a look at the options.
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How Backblaze Got Started (2017)
You may have a great idea for a business, but ideas are cheap. Will your solution connect with customers? Here's the story of how we started Backblaze.
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Backblaze Releases the Reed-Solomon Java Library for Free
Today we are releasing our latest open-source project: Backblaze Reed-Solomon Java library for erasure coding. Click for details on how to use and download.
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Farming Hard Drives: How Backblaze Weathered the Thailand Drive Crisis
The rain started in August and by mid-October 2011, violent floods in Thailand had damaged the factories that helped produce nearly half of the world’s
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Data Backup Strategies: Why the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy is the Best
A Backblaze survey found 54% of people know someone who’s lost data. Learn how the 3-2-1 backup rule can help prevent data loss and keep your files secure.