Backblaze employee here. We have about 900+ pods, each with 45 drives, so that makes a little less than 45,000 drives. We publish our annual failure rates, bu

Backblaze employee here. We have about 900+ pods, each with 45 drives, so that makes a little less than 45,000 drives. We publish our annual failure rates, but let's say blended between drive types it's like 2-3 percent. Think we replace 4-6 drives every day? But the main reason we buy drives is we deploy 30 new pods a month right now, and it's increasing. So we deploy 1,400 drives a month or so in new pods. Sometimes we buy in 3 month batches (to get a break on price) so then you start talking about a 5,000 hard drive purchase in one shot. At $260/drive, you can see how we care deeply about EXACT failure rates. Why isn't Google and Amazon publishing failure rates also? Why only Backblaze?!