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Show HN: BackBlaze Hard Drive Data Failure Viewer

10 points by BadJo0Jo0 5y ago

BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
Hello HN! I'm a huge fan of the BackBlaze Drive Failure Reports[0] and use them exclusively when shopping for drives to use for my NAS. This project was an excuse to dive into F# and how it's used for Web Devlopment (SAFE Stack[1]) to provide me with a quick way to view the drive reports and search the drives on Amazon. It's very much a MVP. I'd like to improve on it when I find more time. Ideally, the next steps would be for me to actually level up my front end game to have something much prettier to look at. As well as provide common functionality that you'd expect from something like this. (cough Column sorting cough) Hope some of you find this useful or interesting. Thanks! [0] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html [1] https://safe-stack.github.io/ https://safe-stack.github.io/
taubek 5y ago
Nice :) BackBlaze reports have been my starting point for choosing HDD for a long time.
bradknowles 5y ago
It would be great if we could sort on each of the respective fields. And some fields need to have a "<" or ">" factor -- for example, I don't want to see any results that have less than 100 drives in the fleet. At those small sample sizes, they're still just testing them and not really buying them for real work.
- BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
  Thanks for the feedback, I can definitely add ranges to fields next! I just updated the UI and now have a better filtering panel and also have column sorting.
  - bradknowles 5y ago
    Hmm. Looks to me like you're not doing a proper sort on drive capacity. 16TB should sort as larger than 160GB. Whoops!
    - BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
      Haha thanks for catching that. Will be sorting that out now
      - bradknowles 5y ago
        Hmm. And now the filters box on the left hand side of the screen won't stay open for me. Every time I try to open it to select the check boxes for just the larger size drives, the box decides to close itself again. Weird.
        BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
        I get that sometimes too. I just refresh the page because I have no idea where that's coming from. It's definitely high on the list to resolve
        BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
        And shortly after, I managed figure it out! Shouldn't be happening again
        bradknowles 5y ago
        Cool! Thanks! Now the only remaining weird thing I've noticed is that when I select a small handful of drive capacities in the filter selection (say, 14TB and larger), I get a nice small list in the main display. But when I try to sort that small list by any of the columns, it throws away the small list of drives and goes back to the full list which is then sorted by that column. Not sure what's going on there.
        BadJo0Jo0 5y ago

10 points by BadJo0Jo0 5y ago

Hello HN! I'm a huge fan of the BackBlaze Drive Failure Reports[0] and use them exclusively when shopping for drives to use for my NAS. This project was an excuse to dive into F# and how it's used for Web Devlopment (SAFE Stack[1]) to provide me with a quick way to view the drive reports and search the drives on Amazon. It's very much a MVP. I'd like to improve on it when I find more time. Ideally, the next steps would be for me to actually level up my front end game to have something much prettier to look at. As well as provide common functionality that you'd expect from something like this. (cough Column sorting cough) Hope some of you find this useful or interesting. Thanks! [0] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html [1] https://safe-stack.github.io/ https://safe-stack.github.io/

taubek 5y ago

Nice :) BackBlaze reports have been my starting point for choosing HDD for a long time.

bradknowles 5y ago

It would be great if we could sort on each of the respective fields. And some fields need to have a "<" or ">" factor -- for example, I don't want to see any results that have less than 100 drives in the fleet. At those small sample sizes, they're still just testing them and not really buying them for real work.

BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I can definitely add ranges to fields next! I just updated the UI and now have a better filtering panel and also have column sorting.
- bradknowles 5y ago
  Hmm. Looks to me like you're not doing a proper sort on drive capacity. 16TB should sort as larger than 160GB. Whoops!
  - BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
    Haha thanks for catching that. Will be sorting that out now
    - bradknowles 5y ago
      Hmm. And now the filters box on the left hand side of the screen won't stay open for me. Every time I try to open it to select the check boxes for just the larger size drives, the box decides to close itself again. Weird.
      - BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
        I get that sometimes too. I just refresh the page because I have no idea where that's coming from. It's definitely high on the list to resolve
      - BadJo0Jo0 5y ago
        And shortly after, I managed figure it out! Shouldn't be happening again
        bradknowles 5y ago
        Cool! Thanks! Now the only remaining weird thing I've noticed is that when I select a small handful of drive capacities in the filter selection (say, 14TB and larger), I get a nice small list in the main display. But when I try to sort that small list by any of the columns, it throws away the small list of drives and goes back to the full list which is then sorted by that column. Not sure what's going on there.
        BadJo0Jo0 5y ago