atYevP

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by atYevP 7y ago
Yev here -> Glad you enjoy them! Thanks for reading!
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by atYevP 7y ago
Hah yes, but likely not in the quantity that would make this interesting!
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by atYevP 7y ago
Yev here -> No SMR drives in production at this point in time!
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by atYevP 7y ago
Yev here -> that info should be in the SMART stats, so if you see a dip, checking there will give you a lot more context (though we'd likely call that out in our blog).
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by atYevP 7y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> as an employee, I'm glad it works too :D
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by atYevP 7y ago
Yev here -> Glad you like it! The SMART stats are definitely entertaining for folks who want to do a deeper-dive!
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> we do! Though granted this post was general and not based on our own horde of SSDs (which we haven't deployed) - but the topic was interesting!
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev here as prophesied! Interesting subject! I'll have to toss it to the group. My assumption is that it would a bit tough for us to write since we aren't necessarily experts in SSDs (yet) - but might be something to consider for
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> We do have a drive crusher in the office, but mostly use that for small externals. It's quite satisfying!
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Or Hard Drive (Internal) + Hard Drive (External) - that's what we typically see!
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by atYevP 8y ago
No this feature requites the data to already have been sent to Backblaze via the Backblaze computer backup application - so it's not quite a 1st party app for B2 (still requires the subscription to get the data uploaded). We vet all th
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> There is no way to give a public link to a Snapshot. But you can "share" a single file from your Backup with a public link!
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by atYevP 8y ago
You're welcome!
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We look forward to you hosting GCS in B2 :P Seriously though - it IS something we've done if a customer had legitimate concerns but having it be more streamlined will be a much cleaner process!
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> That's awesome to hear! I'm glad you're with us! That's one of the nice side-benefits of this blog and one of the reasons we adopted an "open" policy with the Storage Pods. The fir
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yes, that's right. It was one of those "better think quick" scenarios and we did what we had to in order to stay in business!
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by atYevP 8y ago
Can't really count on those NOT happening - but we are more prepared now ;)
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Yev from Backblaze here -> > I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale. Yea, we used to buy drives wherever we could, but that was years ago. We're larger now so we go through more establish
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by atYevP 8y ago
I'll let Andy know - he might be around here somewhere :D
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Glad you're enjoying the stats!
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Every little bit helps ;)
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Not sure if you'd get that metric from that data. We use Reed-Solomon erasure coding ( https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/ ) to make sure that data is "rebuilt"
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, it really is just about seeing what works well for our environment and our use-case. We certainly COULD go out and buy enterprise-grade power supplies, but the system is designed for failure, so the added
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze -> Glad you like it! *Edit -> I was just at SpiceWorld in Austin and a lot of the sys admins who were there enjoyed it quiet a bit! I'm headed to JNUC in Minneapolis next week and last year we talked a lot abou
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by atYevP 8y ago
The operator of course. They are definitely useful (at least on our end). We've found that making it easy to share the blogs increases the odds that folks actually boink the button and add a personalized message. Plus the share countin
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Yev from Backblaze here -> yes but no ETAs at the moment!
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by atYevP 8y ago
Heh, "medium dickbars", hell of a title, and I think that's EXACTLY what the social bar manufacturers are thinking. Unfortunately though, they're super useful :-/
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by atYevP 8y ago
Hahahaha! Social sharing is great! Do not fear the share bar! Seriously though, sorry about that - not sure if we can do anything on our end as that's the way that widget works :( We might be able to add a "print" button so y
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> of course I'm around :D Good questions! We recycle the drives that get removed from service. As for future shortages, that's one of the reasons we took a small round back in 2012 ( https://
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by atYevP 8y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> We don't typically post the cost of the drives, but one thing you can be sure of, is that we go for as good of a price-to-density ratio as we can! So if they were much more expensive than their counterpart

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