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by atYevP 10y ago
> 1,000 TB (1PB) can be easily handled across ~150 (6-7TB)HDDs for one copy Yea, our latest storage pod ( https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... ) has 60 drives at about 8TB a piece so we&#x27
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by atYevP 10y ago
> I've actually been backing up to Backblaze for about a year now but (knock on wood) haven't had to restore any data. Yev from Backblaze. Please test a restore. We have that as part of our best practices. Why? Hopefully you wo
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by atYevP 10y ago
> Are you buying bare drives, or shucking them from enclosures? We haven't had to shuck drives since 2012. And we only started doing that because regular drive prices went up so much due to the Thailand flooding. I believe all those
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Yea, that's a bit tough for us to do. We'd have to have a way to tie that to your account from inside our datacenter and that's a bit complicated. Plus we'd have to find a way to charge for that to make up for the additi
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by atYevP 10y ago
We applaud you :)
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by atYevP 10y ago
> So I searched online, and found a solution where the HDD is suspended with cable ties, a little like this http://i.imgur.com/4MXB1IG.jpg Yev from Backblaze here -> good hustle! That sounds a lot like our "anti-
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by atYevP 10y ago
> And yet, your quantities aren't enough to attract the attention of the WDC direct sales department? We've just started heading down the direct paths, but yea it seems like the minimum order number to work direct with the manu
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by atYevP 10y ago
> What I'd like to know, for a given model, what the blended failure rate is after 3mo, 6mo, 12mo, 24mo etc of operational time. That would be a real apples-to-apples comparison. You might actually be able to pull that from the raw
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> you're probably fine. Everything will fail eventually, just have a backup! We recommend Backblaze :P
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Yev from Backblaze -> we're not really out to make a definitive "x is better than y" statement, that's just what's occurred in our environment. We've heavily favored HGST in the past, but lately we've b
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Yev from Backblaze here -> They have a lot more :D
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Accurate. We live off the averages. More people store less data than store more data. A lot of folks that have multiple terabytes backed up often tell their friends with less data and eventually it all averages
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by atYevP 10y ago
This is accurate. Unlike many Silicon Valley companies, we live within our means :D
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yea. Right?
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Yev from Backblaze here -> You can trust it. As long as you're OK with it dying and have other backups in place ;-)
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Yev from Backblaze here -> You're not going to believe this, but the folks at Evolve used Powerpoint and a template...seriously.
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by atYevP 10y ago
Tried a few once...had to tether them to the ground :P
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev here! It's an interesting question. We use the pods in a larger "Vault" configuration, so the way we use them is a bit different (basically a set of 20 pods are connected -> https://www.backblaze.com/bl
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by atYevP 10y ago
Thanks! We really do this so that others follow suite. It's sort of happened with Facebook's Open Compute, and Netflix's Open Connect releasing some of their data. Dropbox recently brought things in-house as well, so we'
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> You can buy these pods (well, not 6.0 at the moment, but previous versions) from BackupPods -> http://www.backuppods.com/
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Currently yup! But we're actively looking to expand ;-)
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Yup! We call ours Guido -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/sean-has-a-new-friend-his-nam...
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Good question! We actually took that in to consideration when designing them. In our datacenter the floors can handle it, but it's definitely something that should be considered if you're thinking abo
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We actually offer Backblaze B2 at $0.005/GB/Month, so slightly less expensive! -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
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by atYevP 10y ago
OK it came -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... See! Soon!
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by atYevP 10y ago
More to come...soon ;-)
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by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> http://www.backuppods.com/ check those guys out they'll build one for you, or you can DIY if you're handy. And then you can choose which drives you want to toss in it.
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by atYevP 11y ago
We don't write out the infrequent access pricing as it's not what we're competing with, also why we don't price out Nearline or Glacier, it's not at 1:1 for what we're trying to offer. The consumer offering is
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Absolutely. They key difference is backup vs. archive. Backblaze was designed as a backup solution, it's intended to be a 1:1 copy of your user data, and if your data set changes we change it on our end as
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> We're working on a few APIs and some should be aligned with what ARQ is looking for. We're hoping that they do integrate with us, giving folks an inexpensive alternative!

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