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How does Backblaze source its hard drives? I think their reports are getting big enough to warrant the attention of the manufacturers marketing departments, who
by sangnoir 6y ago
How does Backblaze source its hard drives? I think their reports are getting big enough to warrant the attention of the manufacturers marketing departments, who are incentivized to game the system by supplying non-representative disks (i.e. the "good ones") to get an edge over the competition, if they can. I suspect any model that looks good in the report will likely shift more numbers than it otherwise would have.
- atYevP 6y agoYev from Backblaze here -> We work with the drive manufacturers and their distributors! One of the reasons we think it's important to state the drive model is so people know exactly what is getting deployed versus just using ___ 14TB or ___16TB. But we source our drives just like any other large cloud storage provider would!