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Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > Do we know if these drives are the same as you would purchase in a retail outlet Seagate (for instance) won't sell ANYBODY drives directly, so th…

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze, and I was here first. > I'd worry they would sue for... If you are referring to Backblaze, we're not going to "sue" anybody for anything. We (Backb…

> I doubt I'd get anywhere close to ROI with SSDs I think most people assume the SSDs are more expensive, but depending on their application they choose SSDs for the OTHER properti…

> Capitalism does not reward hard work. Smart work, maybe, but not hard work. I'd say a person successful/rewarded in a capitalistic society (defined by accruing more wealth than t…

> Someone with some time could correlate SMART data to failure rate. We looked into it a little, some notes written up here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicat…

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze but more on the backup client side that runs on laptops, not in the datacenter storage side. > Is there a failure list for write heavy drives? To be…

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. Here is a histogram of backup sizes of our Backblaze Personal Backup Customers if it is useful: https://i.imgur.com/GiHhrDo.gif You have to zoom in…

Disclaimer: I'm the engineer you are commenting on, I just want to straighten out one mis-understanding. > This quote especially seemed childish and immature to me: > > > "And this…

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased and you should keep me honest. > if you run into big trouble, you can go get the box back for a really fast restore Backblaze provides…

> useful to add another column for "label", Yeah, that would work really well. When you look at the "services" control panel in Windows, there are two columns. One column is "Name"…

> and congrats on the IPO Thanks, that was super exiting for us. After 14 years, I claim (and this is controversial) that we're no longer a startup and now we're just a mid-sized p…

> Symlinks have been supported since Vista I'm not aware of even Windows 10 or Windows 11 being able to create Symlinks on FAT32 and exFAT, but I could be wrong? But it doesn't mat…

> > Backblaze ships with 21 identical copies of the same executable > > This seems needlessly dismissive. I feel like they definitely know that you can execute the same binary mult…

> ... 4 - 6 words ... very conservatively 160 characters is probably going to fit Gotcha. I'll file a Jira ticket to see if we can easily and quickly raise it to 200 characters (ro…

> Love his web page on dutch bikes in Amsterdam. Ha! That's my half second of viral fame right there. You have no idea how blindly I stumbled into making that webpage. I haven't ri…

> Is there a reason there’s a short limit on how long my Backblaze password can be? The current limit is 50 characters. There are reasons we don't let it get super long like 2,000 …

Hey Robbie- I am touched you saved my email and remembered me, and that at the time you didn't respond negatively to the message. Thank you for being a customer. The only thing I r…

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze on the backup client. > it looks like two sperm fighting over the egg In 2017, this was proposed as one of several possible animations in the Backbl…

One interesting thing that Backblaze supports (that I don't think many people use) is that you can actually use any S3 API on any bucket, and any B2 API on the same bucket. Like ev…

> how does the presigned URL work? I thought it was this - https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_get_upload_url.html If you want to use Amazon S3 APIs, you do not call ANYTHING that…

Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze so I'm biased. > Have you tried backblaze b2 storage? Requires more work client-side... Backblaze recently released an S3 compatible API, so I'm ho…

Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze so I'm biased and you should keep me honest. :-) > Backblaze as I mentioned in another comment will be a bad idea due to the poor S3 compatible int…

> you refuse to accept mine and others’ arguments about PEK Not at all! I agree with you COMPLETELY. You want a zero knowledge backup product, Backblaze offers that and makes a lar…

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased and you should keep me honest. > they probably haven't thought about it in such stark terms Backblaze takes security incredibly seriou…

> this response by you reads as quite disingenuous It wasn't intended as such, I really meant it. I'd like to get to the bottom of this, understand what this person's true issue wi…