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Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives

To get the latest updates and information on 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… Continue reading Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives

100 Petabytes of Cloud Data

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 100 petabytes: One quarter as much data… Continue reading 100 Petabytes of Cloud Data

Walt Mossberg Recommends Backblaze

Last week, venerable reviewer Walt Mossberg did an in-depth Backblaze review and said: “I like and can recommend Backblaze.” Mossberg had been the head technology reviewer for The Wall Street Journal for approximately 25 years before leaving to start a dedicated technology site, Re/code, in January 2014. According to Wikipedia: Mossberg is widely regarded as… Continue reading Walt Mossberg Recommends Backblaze

Backblaze + Pebble

Backblaze and Pebble? Talk about worlds colliding. I (Yev) love the Pebble, and I’ve been wearing one ever since my Kickstarter edition watch shipped last year. More recently I’ve upgraded to the shiny and new Pebble Steel. Anyway, I’m also the social media guy at Backblaze, so I’m constantly monitoring the ‘social sphere’ for any… Continue reading Backblaze + Pebble

Data Center Outage

Update 2/12/2014: The post mortem on the data center outage is complete. The outage started when the Emergency Power Off (EPO) system was activated. The outage began on 02/05/2014 at 9:08 a.m. PST and lasted for one hour and 43 minutes until 10:51 a.m. PST. At this point, the Backblaze servers started recovering and were… Continue reading Data Center Outage

What Hard Drive Should I Buy?

My last two blog posts were about expected drive lifetimes and drive reliability. These posts were an outgrowth of the careful work that we’ve done at Backblaze to find the most cost-effective disk drives. Running a truly unlimited online backup service for only $5 per month means our cloud storage needs to be very efficient and we need to quickly figure out which drives work.

A Burger With a Side of Spreadsheets, To Go

“The Mac died,” my wife sighed into the phone. I wasn’t surprised. First, the dead Mac was our seven year old iMac computer, which had worked flawlessly the entire time. And second, I was traveling for business and things always seem to “break” when I am on the road. It was Sunday night. I had… Continue reading A Burger With a Side of Spreadsheets, To Go