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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze | Yes, prices still haven't come back down to pre-flood levels unfortunately. They used to drop about 4% per month in price (over time) but now it's going down more slowly.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze | Somewhat. Luckily, not all the drives fail at the same time. If a drive fails in one pod we replace it, so even if there is a large fall-off after 5-6 years, it won't be like we are losing a majority of our farm in
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze | I know, right?
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev on Backblaze | We actually hope to see if we can collect enough data to release a "per manufacturer" report on had drive failure. We're currently collecting that data, but as always, follow the Backblaze Blog for info on
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze | One might say that we are "Backblazing a trail"? To my knowledge we've never paid for a HN top article. People tend to like our pod and storage related stuff and we're always thrilled to see it on he
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by atYevP 13y ago
No one (outside Amazon) truly knows what Glacier is on, likely it is a combination, and tape may play a role, that's why it's relatively inexpensive to house the data, but the costs to get it back are very high and are for "e
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev at Backblaze | One of our designs was for an aluminum pod..it made it..."lighter". :)
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by atYevP 13y ago
And we love your money! Please tell more people to give us your money ;-) Seriously though, we're glad we can entertain you and help you back up. We figure being open about this stuff leads to awesome discussion and sometimes, like in
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by atYevP 13y ago
I enjoyed this comment.
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by atYevP 13y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> We love Hitachi drives. They make us really happy. Unfortunately they are also more expensive than WD and Seagates, and since our #1 factor in drive purchasing is price, we don't get them very often :(
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by atYevP 14y ago
It's not THAT crazy, the drive manufacturers saw demand stay constant while supply dwindled, there response was to raise prices across the board. They really have no need to drop them again, as quickly as they had been before the flooding
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by atYevP 14y ago
Yev w/ Backblaze here -> This is true, and we've had bad batches before, but all of the drives and chassis are tested before we put them in to production, having arrays with the same drives minimizes the variables throughout the pod.
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by atYevP 14y ago
(Yev w/ Backblaze here) -> We have drives that have remained online since the first versions of the storage pods, but we've just recently started collected drive failure rates. Typically we see that if a drive can stay up for the first
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by atYevP 14y ago
I work for Backblaze -> typically we replace a drive once it fails, but not "as soon as it fails". Because the storage pods go in to "read only" mode when one drive goes down, we have some time before we need to take action, sometimes i
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by atYevP 14y ago
Hah, well I'll leave you guys to it ;-)
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by atYevP 14y ago
And what hardware startup might this be? I'm curious ;-)
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by atYevP 14y ago
That may be the case. It certainly would make sense to me since I imagine demand for denser storage is higher in Silicon Valley.
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by atYevP 14y ago
Yea, if you see my above link, Costco was a big help to us. They have a lot of good deals.
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by atYevP 14y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We're not above liberating drives from their enclosures: http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming...
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by atYevP 14y ago
I'm going to have to tell our CTO to close up shop. Here we were, thinking we were profitable...alas and alack!:)
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Backblaze announces upcoming iPhone app...(thenextweb.com)
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by atYevP 14y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> The drives were EXACTLY the same as the ones we would put in to our storage pods prior to the crisis. We selected specific external drives to break open and check because we thought they might be similar, and
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by atYevP 14y ago
*Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, that code was very early and was intended for support to gather data from the field as we were collecting data on what was causing the timeout, the message was to prompt folks to write in so they could c
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by atYevP 14y ago
*Yev from Backblaze here -> You're correct, but quick note on this. We're a boostrapped startup, meaning, we need to be constantly profitable in order to pay salary and keep the business going, taking a financial hit was the only real o
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by atYevP 14y ago
*Yev from Backblaze here: I can now purchase from Costco again, so all is well on that front. Even with a price at or around your calculated $285, that is still half as expensive as the $600 per drive we were once quoted during the crisis.
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Vizio PC's to Offer Backblaze Online Backup to Simply Backups(blog.backblaze.com)
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47% Increase In Daily Backups Over 2011 - 5th Annual Backup Survey(blog.backblaze.com)
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Believing in an idea(readwriteweb.com)
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Behind Backblaze - Part 2: Big Storage(youtube.com)
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