atYevP

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by atYevP 11y ago
My pleasure!
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Definitely! We charge $5/month and have a support team that's inundated with folks expecting $100/month worth of support. There is something weirdly psychological about it, for example, if you&#x
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Unfortunately we aren't large enough to negotiate with hard drive manufacturers. We've tried, believe me, but since we're not putting in order of 10,000 drives at a time, they refuse to speak wit
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Nice work!
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, we always kind of hope that others will jump in and start sharing data as well. We'll see!
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by atYevP 11y ago
I think we can still submit the github library to Show HN?
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Glad you like the build! We have more fun things we're working on in that regard ;-)
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by atYevP 11y ago
I got the quote from the same wikipedia article ;-) Plus HGST has always been quite vocal about the companies being separate. We stopped calling them Hitachi drives as a result, since the new entity is called HGST.
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> They are run as separate entities: "It was agreed that WD would operate with WD Technologies and HGST as wholly owned subsidiaries and they would compete in the marketplace with separate brands and product
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by atYevP 11y ago
They ARE nice folks. I shall tell them you said so. They like the positive reinforcement :)
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by atYevP 11y ago
Definitely something to consider if we scale this up. Right now if we were to propose that to our ops team their heads might explode. Gotta make sure they are open to new workflows first :*D
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by atYevP 11y ago
Cool! Well, that's why we write them, people seem to dig them! And we have a lot of stats and data from our experiences to share, so it's mutually beneficial!
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> sure we can, but the datacenter guys are very analytical, they take time in to consideration as theirs is at a premium, so they could do it in the datacenter, but we'd much rather have them prelabeled.
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by atYevP 11y ago
Certainly, at least mathematically. If we ramp up the Toshiba purchases and cannot get them pre-labeled, we'll definitely do it on our end, though we think we'll be able to get them labeled ahead of time from some channel partners
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by atYevP 11y ago
Sure, maybe my math was off, I'm not a datacenter guy, they are very efficient ;-) It comes down to cost/time. We did small-scale tests and they went pretty well. We're hoping to avoid the manual process on our end, but if we
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by atYevP 11y ago
USA! USA!
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by atYevP 11y ago
We do not get them delivered in pods no, we put them in at the datacenter. We don't do it because of the time constraints. Lets say it takes 30 seconds to do one individual drive. With 45 drives in a chassis that's 22 minutes per
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by atYevP 11y ago
You're wonderful.
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by atYevP 11y ago
In addition to what Clunkclunk said, you can also do the following -> http://codewelt.com/proj/speak?lang=en-us&text=Failure:%20Di...
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> The drive manufacturer won't do it for us (at least not at our scale). We're currently chatting to some channel retailers that would be able to do it for us and allow us to scale a little bit. It was
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> You're not wrong. In fact we recommend having an on-site backup FIRST, then moving on to other backup mediums. I wrote a post about it -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-ba
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> That is our traffic coming in, so after the client deduplicates, encrypts, and transmits the data.
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by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> bit of a different use-case. Box isn't a backup service, and Backblaze isn't a syncing/sharing/collaboration service. But you're right, if they are paying to house their data somewhere,
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> That's actually new. We tried it for the first time with this post. We don't actually use the email addresses for anything, other than to send the data. The intent is that you sign up for blog notific
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> TRY IT AGAIN! We just introduced multi-process uploading, which has helped some of our users abroad 2x or 3x their speeds!
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by atYevP 12y ago
Sample size of one = only sample size important to that one :-p
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, likely you're going to be OK with those drives. We're just reporting on our experience with them. Likely use-cases are going to be different, especially in a home setting!
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Isn't that crazy? I've written to blog posts about Cryptolocker, and how you can use a backup system to defeat it (just wipe the machine and restore from a backup). The cryptolocker virus is definitel
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> gimme gimme gimme gimme!
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by atYevP 12y ago
Pretty sure we can't say much other than stay tuned at this point :)

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