We are thrilled to announce that, effective immediately, we are reducing the price of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage downloads from $0.05 to $0.02 per GB. What’s more, the first gigabyte of data downloaded each day is still free.
Backblaze B2 continues to grow in popularity as developers, IT personnel and more realize the benefits of affordable cloud storage. Our B2 engineering team continues to add features and capabilities to B2 that our users identify as being helpful in getting their job done. Here’s a collection of recent updates to B2 you may find….
Backblaze Labs – the data storage innovation branch of Backblaze – is proud to present to you its newest innovation, Backblaze DNA Storage. Most recently, Backblaze Labs designed Storage Pod 6.0 and built out our Vault infrastructure that powers Backblaze Personal Backup and B2 Cloud Storage. DNA Storage has long been in our sights and….
We’re going to take a look at a typical day in the life of a data center, including what it’s like to visit a data center and see what’s inside.
“Hybrid Cloud” has jumped into the IT vernacular over the last few years. Hybrid Cloud solutions intelligently divide processing and data storage between on-premise and off-premise resources to maximize efficiency. Businesses seamlessly extend their data processing and data storage capabilities to the cloud enabling them to manage unusual or fluctuating demands for services. More recently….
Photographers and videographers regularly push the limit of data storage and archiving solutions, especially as camera makers constantly increase megapixel sensor density. Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are indispensable to help store these large amounts of data, whether it’s 20-50 megapixel stills or 1080p, 4K or 8K video footage. Data creep is inevitable. What can….
B2 for Beginners: Inside the B2 Web interface B2 Cloud Storage enables you to store data in the cloud at a fraction of what you’ll pay other services. For instance, we’re one-fourth of the price of Amazon’s S3. We’ve made it easy to access thanks to a web interface, API and command line interface. Let’s….
Backblaze has recorded and saved daily hard drive statistics from the drives in our data centers since April 2013. At the end of 2016 we had 73,653 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,553 boot drives and 72,100 data drives. This post looks at the hard drive statistics of the data drives we monitor. We’ll first look at the stats for Q4 2016, then present the data for all of 2016, and finish with the lifetime statistics for all of the drives Backblaze has used in our cloud storage data centers since we started keeping track. Along the way we’ll share observations and insights on the data presented.
