
Cloud Storage
Tips, stories, insights, investigations, and how-tos about cloud storage.


Reliability Data Set for 41,000 Hard Drives Now Open-source

What Is the Best Hard Drive?

Our 6TB Hard Drive Face-Off

Hard Drive SMART Stats

Hard Drive Reliability Update: September 2014

Why Now Is the Time for Backblaze to Build a 270TB Storage Pod

Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives

100 Petabytes of Cloud Data

Backblaze Stores 75 Petabytes of Data: One Fourth as Much as Facebook

Nirvanix Cloud Storage Shuts Down: Alternatives, Options, and Prices

Alas, Poor Stephen Is Dead. Or, What it Takes to be a Backblaze Hard Drive

Is the NSA Using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Surveillance Data? Here’s What We Know…

180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0

Quartz Glass Backblaze Storage Pods?

Netflix, You Flatter Us

1.6 Petabytes of Storage in One Day
