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What Is a Safe Hard Drive Temperature Range? Does It Matter?

May 12, 2014 by Brian Beach

How much does operating temperature affect the failure rates of disk drives? Not much. The unlimited online backup service provided by Backblaze requires a lot of storage. In fact, we recently passed the 100PB mark in our data center. This means we use disk drives. A lot of disk drives. The Backblaze Storage Pod is… Continue reading What Is a Safe Hard Drive Temperature Range? Does It Matter?

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January 21, 2014 by Brian Beach

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December 4, 2013 by Brian Beach

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February 26, 2012 by Brian Wilson

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November 20, 2009 by Gleb Budman

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October 12, 2009 by Gleb Budman

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October 7, 2009 by Tim Nufire

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Brian’s 10 Rules for How to Write Cross-Platform Code

December 15, 2008 by Brian Wilson

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Is Backblaze Encrypted? How to Make Strong Encryption Easy to Use

November 12, 2008 by Tim Nufire

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How Many Bytes Are in a Megabyte? The Answer May Surprise You

March 21, 2008 by Gleb Budman

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Shaping a Logo

March 5, 2008 by Casey Jones

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