Cloud Storage

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

Backblaze Open-sources Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding Source Code

June 16, 2015 by Brian Beach

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HGST 8TB Drives: Helium Makes Them Fly

June 9, 2015 by Andy Klein

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What Would You Do With a Storage Pod?

May 27, 2015 by Andy Klein

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Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

May 21, 2015 by Andy Klein

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A Look at Backblaze’s Toshiba Hard Drives

May 13, 2015 by Andy Klein

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Our 6TB Hard Drive Face-Off Revisited

April 30, 2015 by Andy Klein

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CSI: Backblaze—Dissecting 3TB Drive Failure

April 15, 2015 by Andy Klein

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150 Petabytes of Cloud Storage

March 10, 2015 by Andy Klein

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Storage Pod 4.5: Tweaking a Proven Design

March 5, 2015 by Andy Klein

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

February 4, 2015 by Brian Beach

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What Is the Best Hard Drive?

January 21, 2015 by Brian Beach

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Our 6TB Hard Drive Face-Off

December 15, 2014 by Andy Klein

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Hard Drive SMART Stats

November 12, 2014 by Brian Beach

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Hard Drive Reliability Update: September 2014

September 23, 2014 by Brian Beach

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

August 12, 2014 by Andy Klein

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Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives

March 19, 2014 by Andy Klein

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100 Petabytes of Cloud Data

March 18, 2014 by Gleb Budman

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

November 11, 2013 by Gleb Budman

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