atYevP

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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Unfortunately we don't really have any publishable stats on that quite yet, but I can say that we prefer low-power drives so that we can fit more of them in to the racks and not go over power-limits.
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by atYevP 13y ago
He's so modest.
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by atYevP 13y ago
It might because folks are afraid that their partners won't sell them drives. You know, if you're working directly with Hitachi or WD or Seagate and you publish stats saying they aren't great, they don't have much incent
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by atYevP 13y ago
It's a darn shame. We would love to pay less for hard drives. Even at our current capacity, we're still a "small fish". And since we try to run lean we likely could buy 10,000 drives and keep inventory, but that doesn&
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yea, unfortunately we aren't large enough to work directly with the manufacturers. We do buy from distributors sometimes, but if we can get a cheaper deal online, we'll go that route every time.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> Where/what do you teach? We're unsure about releasing any more information at this time, but we're not opposed to it. What would it be used for?
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by atYevP 13y ago
Who could say no to some extra exposure? Plus we feel good about sharing this type of stuff. Not many other folks seem to be willing to do it, we can't fathom why. The discussions around it alone are interesting at the very least.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yes, if things get more reliable without going up in cost, we are happy. Though, it's true that the exposure is nice too.
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by atYevP 13y ago
It happens. Computers are weird things, especially when networking is involved. We always recommend having a local and an off-site copy of data. That way you minimize risk, we're hoping we can get him back up and running soon!
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by atYevP 13y ago
Not enough to measure, it turns out once you get their case off they are mostly the same. The real difference is "enterprise" grade vs "consumer" grade dries.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Interestingly, we think they do as well if not better ( http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/12/04/enterprise-drive-reliab... ). We think it's because external drives are meant to be jostled around by Joe Schmo,
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by atYevP 13y ago
Sean's issue was unfortunate. I think he posted the blog a little prematurely, our support is in contact with him and we're trying to figure out what happened. We restored a lot of data over Backblaze's life (over 5 billion f
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by atYevP 13y ago
We're all on this crazy spinning ball together. Early on Backblaze made the decision to stay out of the hardware business (it sounded lucrative after we developed the v1 storage pod, but everyone was a software person, so we went that
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by atYevP 13y ago
Normally diversification is absolutely the way to go, but once we've found a drive with low failure rates across the board, we'd want to move mostly to using that one drive type. We can always move over to another type of drive, b
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by atYevP 13y ago
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Hitachi drives. If we (Backblaze) could get them at a rate within a few dollars of the other manufacturers at the 4TB level, we would solely buy them.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> All of our drives are consumer-grade. We try to avoid buying enterprise drives at all costs. These are all off-the-shelf internals and in some cases...externals that were made internal! :)
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by atYevP 13y ago
No, we should display the last time you were fully backed up in the console. If you turn on your computer, move photos to it, and turn it off, even if you press "backup now" likely they won't be included in the scan. In our b
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by atYevP 13y ago
Happy to have you :) Welcome!
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yes, that's accurate. The program was designed to be light on systems so we are not constantly scanning and indexing your hard drives. In our best practices we tell people to leave their machines on for a few hours. We cannot run when
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yea, we addressed our twitter folks about this as well. They aren't in support so typically have no context for tweets they are seeing. They just respond in the best way they are able to. In this case I believe that the social team saw
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Personally, I think that the biggest part of the is price sensitivity. External drives are geared towards consumers, who simply will not buy the drives if they go up too much in cost. The internal drives we wer
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by atYevP 13y ago
If we had the extra cash reserves...yup :)
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by atYevP 13y ago
We do recommend having a 3-2-1 backup (3 total copies, 2 local (1 original, 1 local external), and 1 offsite (where Backblaze comes in). In Tedivm's defense though, he did find an actual glitch in our UI that occurred in edge cases, an
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by atYevP 13y ago
Icelancer, typically when users have any issues we offer a refund if they wish to leave the service, I can say that one was offered in this case as well. I do take issue with our "CSRs lying" though. Reading through the tickets, i
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev w/ Backblaze here -> Yea unfortunately when we shuck the drives the warranties are voided, but we add that factor in to the costs that we are willing to pay for the hard drives. Truth was, it was cheaper for us to buy the extern
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by atYevP 13y ago
I believe my Dollar Shave Club Executive razors have 6 blades. So smooth.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Hey Tedivm! Yev from Backblaze here -> It's true that the data was removed from your account. After your trial lapsed and was not paid for, we removed the data after 7 days as is our standard practice. Unfortunately in your case the
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> It really depends on the type of drive. One of the reasons we don't currently buy in chunks of 10,000 is that we like to forecast how many drives we'll need and not keep a bunch of inventory (if you l
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev here ;-) -> http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives... We posted this earlier in the month. The drives inside the external drives that were shucked performed pretty well. We were g
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by atYevP 13y ago
Technically yes, especially from a manpower perspective (Takes folks to replace the drives), and it gets factored in to our "what are we willing to pay" model, so far, cheaper drive still win out over longevity. Now, this is diffe

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