This review looks at the Q3 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
The STEMs of Backblaze: How We Got Here
Without Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education, we would be hard-pressed to find the Backblaze staffers of the future. So we’re celebrating National STEM day (November 8th) in style.
Welcoming the Greenest Member of Support
We’d like to introduce you to the newest member of the Tech Support crew, KC3.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Backing Up: Startup Edition
At Backblaze, the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA: Our founders started out in a cramped Palo Alto apartment, worked two years without pay, and bootstrapped their way to the stable, thriving startup we are today. We’ve even written a series about some of the lessons we learned along the way. But Backblaze is only a sample size of one…
Welcome Pavithra — Sales Engineer
In the last couple of years, we’ve released products that businesses of all sizes love: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and Backblaze for Business Computer Backup. For customers who want to integrate these products deeply into their workflow but need some support, we’re happy to introduce Pavithra, Sales Engineer! Let’s learn a little more about her,… Continue reading Welcome Pavithra — Sales Engineer
Digital Nomad: Sysadmin Elliott
We continue our series on digital nomads with a profile of Backblaze’s Senior Sysadmin, Elliott, who helps maintain our systems while traveling the country in a 19′ trailer.
SMART Stats Exposed — a Drive Stats Remix
A fan of the Hard Drive Stats posts offers his unique and in-depth analysis of what can be learned from the raw data we collect from our data centers.
Planned Maintenance (Monday October 21st, 5 p.m. — 7 p.m. Pacific)
We are scheduling maintenance between
The Life and Times of a Backblaze Hard Drive
What’s it like being a hard drive in a Backblaze data center? Andy, our Hard Drive Stats author, tells the story of Zach, a 12 TB drive who has seen it all.
Practical Tips to Help Digital Nomads Stay Connected
More and more people are working from the road. We cover what it takes to be a digital nomad and kick off our series of profiles of people living this non-traditional lifestyle.
Backblaze 7.0 — Version History And Beyond
Release 7.0 adds one of our most requested features: the ability to keep updated, changed, and even deleted files in your backups forever by extending version history.
Welcome Griffin — Junior Buyer
Backblaze is growing quickly and we need good folks to help keep this well-oiled machine well oiled! We also keep buying more and more stuff. We needed help! Enter Griffin to support our purchasing team.
We ♥ New York
Backblaze will be in New York City for NAB October 16-17 and we’d love to see you at the show.
Catalina Bound
The new operating system from Apple, Mac OS 10.15 Catalina, is releasing any day now and we’ll be ready for it when it does.
Welcome Dash — Sr. Full Stack Engineer
As the Backblaze team and products continue to expand we found that we needed more engineers to help us keep up with existing systems and build out news ones (and we’re always hiring, by the way). To help us, we hired Dash to join our team as a Senior Full Stack Engineer. Let’s learn a… Continue reading Welcome Dash — Sr. Full Stack Engineer
Interview With the Podfather: Tim Nufire on the Origins of the Pod
The Backblaze Storage Pod has reached a ten-year milestone. We thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to the father of the pod, Tim Nufire, about the origins of the pod and its evolution into the game-changing cloud storage icon it has become.
Petabytes on a Budget: 10 Years and Counting
It has been 10 years since Backblaze introduced our Storage Pod to the world. A lot has changed over the years. We take a look back and get a peek at the future.
Veeam Backup to B2 Using Tiger Bridge
Thanks to the B2 Cloud Storage partnership with Tiger Bridge, you now have a new, affordable, and seamless option to back up your VMs to the cloud.