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I wish some other companies that use massive amounts of hardware (Dropbox, Amazon, Google, Facebook, NSA) would release data like this. I love that Backblaze do
by tibbon 10y ago
I wish some other companies that use massive amounts of hardware (Dropbox, Amazon, Google, Facebook, NSA) would release data like this. I love that Backblaze does it, but having an even larger sampling of data would be great.
- bluedino 10y agoGoogle has released some similar information in the past http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
- brianwski 10y agoBrian from Backblaze here. This Google study is EXCELLENT and extremely useful, but it leaves off the drive model numbers and manufacturers which means you cannot use it to help guide purchasing decisions. It's still an awesome study and well worth reading and useful to a ton of people (like us at Backblaze when we were starting out).
- brianwski 10y agoBrian from Backblaze here. It completely, utterly blows my mind that we are the first and still only company to do this. First of all, it is a great way for people to hear about our company, which sometimes leads to people buying our products and services. Second, even just for the good of all humanity, why wouldn't you do this to promote the best drive manufacturers and heck, even help them learn how their drives are working in the field? It boggles my mind that Facebook, Yahoo, Google, and Amazon (Amazon Web Services include S3) don't publish their drive failure stats. What could possibly be the reason they keep silent?
- hinkley 10y agoYou guys are in the Do Well by Doing Good category on this, and unfortunately few companies in any business sector maintain this philosophy as they grow. The boardroom is so divorced from the showroom that it's not even funny how big he disconnects can get.