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Hacking hardware isn't just cool - it's also good business(gigaom.com)
4 points by budmang 14y ago|0 comments
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by budmang 14y ago
The "green" is certainly a gimmick. But the lower power usage is not. 10 Backblaze Storage Pods full of "green" drives use the same amount of power as 8 pods full of "regular" drives.
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by budmang 14y ago
Gleb from Backblaze here. Glad you're enjoying the service and the spec design. As for the faceplates, our welding skills aren't great either. However, the company we had cut our steel case for us (www.protocase.com) will cut a custom logo
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by budmang 14y ago
Gleb from Backblaze here. The drives were literally the same inside the external enclosures. We bought a few to start with to check. We use consumer-grade drives across our entire 40+ petabyte storage farm because we do not need high-perfor
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Need a new datacenter? Here a shopping guide.(gigaom.com)
3 points by budmang 14y ago|0 comments
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After 5 years of bootstrapping & profit, Backblaze take $5m(news.cnet.com)
3 points by budmang 14y ago|0 comments
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The REAL story of how Backblaze affords $5/mo for unlimited storage(blog.backblaze.com)
7 points by budmang 15y ago|0 comments
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by budmang 15y ago
One option that Backblaze (and some others) offer is the ability to order an external hard drive with all your data via FedEx. That way, if you need a terabyte of data back, you get it quickly.
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by budmang 15y ago
You...and 94% of everybody else I'm afraid: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/12/94-of-computer-users-st...
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by budmang 15y ago
Agreed that backing up only in transit can be sketchy. Most online backup services (including ours, www.Backblaze.com) encrypt your data on your client. Also, we provide an option to use a private key in which case not only is it encrypted,
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by budmang 15y ago
We don't store your operating system or apps primarily because without taking a complete disk image, you wouldn't be able to reinstall them typically anyway. Thus, it would take more of your bandwidth to get the files backed up, but you wou
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by budmang 15y ago
I'd like to make one small plug for http://www.Backblaze.com We're an online backup service that provides completely unlimited storage, external drive backup, versioning, etc. for $5/month. (And we're the Presenting Sponsor of World Backu
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Data survivability with ultrabook SSDs: A dropped Zenbook and teardown findings(blog.backblaze.com)
2 points by budmang 15y ago|0 comments
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The DVD is dead. USB flash drive restores are here.(blog.backblaze.com)
76 points by budmang 15y ago|33 comments
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by budmang 15y ago
Welcome on board!
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by budmang 15y ago
Backblaze has no limitations on the amount of data you can backup or the speed at which you can backup. You can read a bit more about this on our blog: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/02/03/backblaze-is-committed-... Gleb Budman CEO, Backb
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by budmang 16y ago
FYI - we provide completely unlimited storage, unthrottled bandwidth, backup all data by default, backup external drives, and can ship you a restore drive as well. $5/month or $50/year. We can do this based on our unique cloud storage which
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by budmang 17y ago
Thanks for the discussion here. I wanted to just clarify - we take data integrity very seriously and actually checksum EVERYTHING. We assume that data might get mangled over the Internet, in memory, on disk, etc. Thus, we checksum each file
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by budmang 18y ago
Mozy is also a good solution. It's actually the same price ($5/mo), but most users say it is harder to use (since it doesn't just backup all data) and that it slows down your computer when it kicks off it's daily backup.
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by budmang 18y ago
I'm the CEO of Backblaze and certainly understand your concern about hosting your data with a startup. We do encrypt your data using AES encryption, your data is stored in the 365 Main datacenters (where Cnet, Sun, etc.) are located, and yo