Storage Pod 796 went through the standard build process for any Backblaze Storage Pod. Little did it know that destiny was waiting. At the end of the assembly line, instead of 45 Seagate 4 TB drives, Pod 796 would receive 45 Western Digital 6 TB drives (Model: WD60EFRX). Doing the math, 45 times 6 is….
To get the latest updates and informationon ALL of the Storage Pod versions. Click Here. For the first time since the original Storage Pod, Backblaze is announcing a completely redesigned approach with the introduction of the first “direct wire” Storage Pod. This new Storage Pod performs four times faster, is simpler to assemble, and delivers….
Wow. Backblaze is now storing 100 petabytes of customer data in our cloud storage. 100 petabytes is a hard number to wrap our heads around, so… How much data is 100 petabytes? 100 petabytes 100,000 terabytes 100,000,000 gigabytes 100,000,000,000 megabytes Here are a few comparisons to help contextualize what 100 petabytes: * 1/4th as much….
In Jan 2011, we published that Backblaze was storing 10 petabytes of customer data. Today, Backblaze online backup stores 75 petabytes of customer data. Backblaze data storage has grown 750% in less than 3 years! You guys are truly storing an incredible amount of data ;-) Of course, all of this data is stored in….
In 2007 Nirvanix saw that cloud storage was going to be a major necessity for companies in the future and believed they could differentiate from Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s S3 storage service by focusing on the enterprises that also wanted sales engineers, tech support, and other dedicated services. To pursue this mission, Nirvanix raised $70….
Data-worthy Drives Backblaze stores over 70 Petabytes of data for our customers. That data currently resides on 561 Backblaze Storage Pods containing 25,245 spinning hard drives. Each month we add another 15-20 Storage Pods with each pod adding another 45 hard drives to our collection. Getting to be a hard drive in a Backblaze Storage….
The leaked presentation about PRISM detailed the ability for the NSA to collect emails, photos, videos, and more from nine companies including: Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple. There has been a tremendous amount of debate about whether PRISM allows “direct” access to these companies’ servers, somewhat limited access through some type of intermediate portal, or….
To get the latest updates and informationon ALL of the Storage Pod versions. Click Here. We thought ten people would care; instead a million people read our Storage Pod 1.0 blog post where we open sourced the Backblaze Storage Pod design and introduced the world’s most cost-efficient way to store big data. The interest grew….
