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What is the best hard drive?
Check out the latest Hard Drive Stats. It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a
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Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions, click here. A couple of months ago, we gave you a sneak peek as we designed
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What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives
Have you ever wondered what your hard drive SMART errors actually mean? Find out what we look at to determine if a drive is about to fail.
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The Next Backblaze Storage Pod
Each month we build 60 or so new Storage Pods, which require 60 CPUs, 720 SATA cables, 120 power supplies, and so on.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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