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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yes, we do burn in the drives before deploying them. So the drives in the study are ones that have at least made it past that state.
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We've talked about posting the raw data, but haven't quite decided on that yet. I'll make sure to forward this to Brian so he can take a look and see whether or not any of the above would be feas
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> No reason to be ashamed! Truth is we still buy Seagates! Most likely they will work well enough in a home environment. All drives fail eventually. If you can get 3-4 years out of one, that's great!
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by atYevP 12y ago
I think my new favorite phrase is going to be "anecdata". Love that.
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by atYevP 12y ago
As a member of the Backblaze marketing team, that post was mostly us poking fun at ourselves. The team was spread pretty thin and had a lot of balls in the air, so that newsletter came out a bit goofy and with some typos. That won't be
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by atYevP 12y ago
Hi! @YevP from Backblaze here -> Have you tried to write in to support? They can take a look at the account and see if they can figure out why that oddness is occurring? https://www.backblaze.com/help.html .
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> What we meant by "the top of the curve" was that the price per GB for the 6TB drives is still high, but will decrease greatly as time goes on. The "The Backblaze Cross Under Point" section o
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We've since spoken to some of the device manufacturers after some of our more recent posts. :-p
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by atYevP 12y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We've seen an 8TB drive, can't wait to get enough of them to drop in to a pod and test :)
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yea. Backblaze is pretty rad. I work there. We just got polo shirts today!
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by atYevP 13y ago
Not the failure rate of pods themselves, but we do keep track of the failed drives within them. We did publish some blog posts about those stats, you can find them on blog.backblaze.com! The pods as a whole are pretty stable, them moving pa
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yes actually! One of the first things that the community came back with after Version 1 was that the hard drives vibrated a bit hard for most use-cases. They recommended we use "hard drive vibration dampening sleeves" (rubber band
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by atYevP 13y ago
We're constantly tweaking the design, that might pop up in the future!
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> We do! In fact we make $0 off of the pod design and why we open sourced it. We want other folks to tinker, so we try to stay as open as possible about the design and building of the pods!
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Density is key! Our biggest need is to fit as much data as possible on each pod for as little price. The cost difference between removing 1 SATA card or removing 5 drives is negligible, but the added drives at
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by atYevP 13y ago
Thanks for taking the time to answer! Interesting use-case!
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by atYevP 13y ago
Hypothetically, what would you be looking for in an S3 competitor? Specifically: 1. How much data do you have? 2. What would you use it for? 3. How important is it if the API isn't the same as the S3 API? 4. Any specific certification
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by atYevP 13y ago
Nice!
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by atYevP 13y ago
We currently work with Distributors. I was referring to the manufacturers themselves, like buying directly from Seagate/WD. We currently work with a few different distributors to get different types of drives.
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by atYevP 13y ago
70% of the time it works all the time? We haven't yet gotten the logs so we don't know what happened, but we take this stuff very seriously. At the end of the day we're a backup company, it's a serious business and even
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by atYevP 13y ago
Very cool! What's a good way to reach you, I see your handle doesn't have an about section. My handle is my twitter handle if you would like to ping me and we can chat a bit more!
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by atYevP 13y ago
We designed our storage pods and software to work in spite of hard drive failures, so paying a $50-$100 premium for a drive just to avoid possibly $5 in labor to replace it when it fails is not a good practice. We go for the good cheap stuf
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by atYevP 13y ago
If you build good hardware...you build good hardware.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Not that we're aware of no. We doubt it would pass our testing if it wasn't legit.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Unfortunately that's still the case (Yev here, from Backblaze). Minimum orders are around 10,000 unites, and we're just not there yet. Thinking about starting a consortium though, so if anyone needs hard drives... ;-)
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by atYevP 13y ago
Awesome! That's what we I like to hear :)
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by atYevP 13y ago
We certainly want all of you as customers, but the truth is, there's a time and a place for overt marketing. Covert marketing is so much more interesting, it's stealthy! Plus the discussion sometimes leads to ideas that we use and
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by atYevP 13y ago
Coincidence. Sean is working with our support team as we speak. We had no other issues with restores during the time he was attempting them so we suspect it's something on his end. We'll collect logs and try to get him back up and
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by atYevP 13y ago
You're welcome! We love sharing information, and if it can't have a direct impact on our business, there's no good reason not to do it. A rising tide floats all ships! Hopefully you can find a decent substitute for the Seagat
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by atYevP 13y ago
Well don't despair about your Seagate purchase. We're still buying them. Plus, over 80% of the drives that we have in production are over 4 years old. You should be just fine :)

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