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by budmang 11y ago
Links? We love getting feedback, especially if we're overpaying for a particular component? Gleb
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by budmang 11y ago
Excellent analysis. There are some other costs involved (bandwidth, switches/cabinets, non-pod servers, etc.), but pods & drives dominate the costs, so your math is good. You're also right that 1 TB is the approximate breakeve
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by budmang 11y ago
Not trying to align with any movement. Just saying that we give the design away. Appreciate all the feedback and we'll re-look at adding a license. To be clear on our philosophy - we don't want to restrict people from building the
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by budmang 11y ago
Just to be clear, there are 3 different things: * Backblaze Online Backup - $5/month unlimited backup for Mac/Win; automatically does client-side-encryption * Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage - $0.005/GB/mo for object storage
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by budmang 11y ago
We definitely focus on ease-of-backup vs. choices-for-backup. One of the initial things we found we the "pick and choose files & folders to backup" approach is what kept most people from setting up a backup at all because they
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by budmang 11y ago
Very cool. I remember an article I read about a veteran music journalist who applied for a job and was told he had no experience. Turned out every magazine he worked for over 10+ years had shut down and there was not a single online referen
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by budmang 11y ago
"Think free as in free speech, not free beer." It's not under any license, it's just 'free'. We've talked about putting the Storage Pods under a license, and may at some point since we get this question pe
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by budmang 11y ago
We have gotten some other benefits as well. One of our senior support reps decided to join us after reading an IAmA where we talked about the Storage Pods. We just recently hired a senior sys admin and the head of Facebook's Prineville
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by budmang 11y ago
> packing up to an order of magnitude more storage into 4U Where are you buying 40 TB hard drives? I'd love to get some ;-) We actually don't claim these are 'state of the art', more 'state of the inexpensive&#x2
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by budmang 11y ago
I'm particularly excited about this version because it is the underpinning of B2 (which required higher performance), but we were still able to keep the costs low.
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by budmang 11y ago
Would love to have you do it...and hearing about how it goes!
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by budmang 11y ago
We're at the very beginning of this journey, and heard from a lot of folks that they wanted access to inexpensive cloud storage. I imagine we'll learn a lot more about needs & use cases from people overtime. I can certainly un
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by budmang 11y ago
brianwski below shares a good link...but you make a good point jrnkntl that we should talk more about it on the site. We'll plan to add more content around that on the Why B2 page. Thanks!
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by budmang 11y ago
I'm thrilled that we can offer this raw cloud storage for just $0.005/GB/month. Would love to hear from the Hacker News community what you do with storage today & what you might do with B2. Here are my thoughts on our ann
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by budmang 11y ago
Coincidentally, at the last company we did, MailFrontier...someone also registered the misspelling MailFronteir and put up a site selling condoms.
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by budmang 11y ago
Exactly. Thanks for adding that. They're also used in nearly all large storage systems from Amazon S3 to RAID6.
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Show HN: Backblaze Reed-Solomon erasure codes(github.com)
16 points by budmang 11y ago|5 comments
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by budmang 11y ago
Not sure either. The magic of luck and algorithms I guess. Are you planning on using the code in something?
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by budmang 11y ago
We probably should have submitted this as a "Show HN". Believe this is the first production quality Java library that's open source. You're welcome to do anything you want with it - no license restrictions. Would love yo
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by budmang 12y ago
The tracking on that wasn't easy to align with these data, but from what we've seen the shucked drives seemed to perform similarly. At this point, the percentage of shucked drives in the data set is fairly small.
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by budmang 12y ago
At Backblaze, we've done a lot of our own analyses on our hard drives to look at which ones are most reliable, whether temperature affects reliability, etc. However, we kept being asked for the raw data so people could run their own an
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by budmang 13y ago
Fixed. Thanks!
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by budmang 13y ago
Supermicro makes good systems that are very widely used and we love that companies are continuing to work toward more dense and less costly storage systems. When we started Backblaze in 2007, all the options were astoundingly expensive. One
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by budmang 13y ago
That's an interesting idea. We considered trying to get rid of the extra card by mounting 5 drives either on the motherboard or on another card (and hope to experiment with these paths in the future.)
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Growth Hackers Conference - my bullet point summary(blog.backblaze.com)
2 points by budmang 13y ago|0 comments
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Alas, Poor Stephen is Dead …or what it takes to be a Backblaze hard drive.(blog.backblaze.com)
6 points by budmang 13y ago|0 comments
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How Backblaze increased cash-flow 40% in 5 min(inc.com)
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Don't Build a Billion-Dollar Business. Really.(inc.com)
5 points by budmang 13y ago|0 comments
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by budmang 14y ago
Well either they're making 99% gross margin, or perhaps they need a few Backblaze Storage Pods.
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More people restore data on Monday and other data loss stats from Backblaze(blog.backblaze.com)
3 points by budmang 14y ago|0 comments

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