I can't load this site because blackblaze only supports 2 TLS ciphers. TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
Have you tried using Google Chrome?
I think his point is that neither of those are secure.
What is the best hard drive?
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#22Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922996 submitted almost two hours earlier.
You've posted a broken URL: "Post not available".
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#23Always love reading HDD reliability stats from Backblaze -- but this demonstrates one of the reasons why post dating is so important, especially when the information in the post is time-sensitive. Nowhere on the page does it say that the post date is today, unless you click the "latest posts" tab by the author below. I had originally though it was a repost of the many older articles from Backblaze until seeing a refe…
Yev from Backblaze here -> it's an internal debate as to whether we should put dates on everything. It used to be that they were part of the URL (because of the way our blog was designed) but that is no longer the case. We decided to leave them off for a while to see if that made posts more "evergreen", but we definitely see where it can lead to some confusion. We'll keep chatting about it internally, there's likely…
As a general rule, I get really annoyed when I come across a web page and I can't tell how old it is, especially if it is information that is likely to age rapidly. I don't care if putting a date on the page makes it less "evergreen", hurts someones SEO stats or makes the flowers wilt, I just want to know if I can trust what I'm reading.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yev from Backblaze here -> it's an internal debate as to whether we should put dates on everything. It used to be that they were part of the URL (because of the way our blog was designed) but that is no longer the case. We decided to leave them off for a while to see if that made posts more "evergreen", but we definitely see where it can lead to some confusion. We'll keep chatting about it internally, there's likely…
As a general rule, I get really annoyed when I come across a web page and I can't tell how old it is, especially if it is information that is likely to age rapidly. I don't care if putting a date on the page makes it less "evergreen", hurts someones SEO stats or makes the flowers wilt, I just want to know if I can trust what I'm reading.
>> "makes it less "evergreen""
The evergreen no date thing is fine with me - provided the content itself is actually evergreen. That's the bit people seem to forget. Not dating content doesn't magically make it last forever. If the information is unlikely to expire then I don't need a date. If there is a chance that the information will go out of date, especially if the dated information will not be useful to the reader, then it should be dated.
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#25The Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3 TB drives are another story. We’ll cover how we handled their failure rates in a future blog post. I'm really looking forward to this... could it be a similar problem to the one that caused the huge amount of 7200.11 failures a few years ago?
I've got a sample size of 1 on those things. Glad it's not more, cause it made for an unhappy thanksgiving time when it failed.
Re: What is the best hard drive?
#26Always love reading HDD reliability stats from Backblaze -- but this demonstrates one of the reasons why post dating is so important, especially when the information in the post is time-sensitive. Nowhere on the page does it say that the post date is today, unless you click the "latest posts" tab by the author below. I had originally though it was a repost of the many older articles from Backblaze until seeing a refe…
Is it only because they did a similar post last year that you were confused? Maybe this just needs "2015" in the title?
They recently did an article on 6TB drives. My first thought was that it could be misnamed repost and I started by searching for a date.
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#27Hum...
I think this explain my one dying drive at home. (4 Seagate drives)
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yev from Backblaze here -> it's an internal debate as to whether we should put dates on everything. It used to be that they were part of the URL (because of the way our blog was designed) but that is no longer the case. We decided to leave them off for a while to see if that made posts more "evergreen", but we definitely see where it can lead to some confusion. We'll keep chatting about it internally, there's likely…
Evergreen, now there's a euphemism. :-) I appreciate, in the end you have to do what gets you the most views, however, from my perspective missing out the date means you prefer to waste my time as I have to scan the article until I get a feel for how old it is. I would read anything written within 6 months and would consider up to 12 months if the information was high quality. It's not like we're overburdened with qu…
Note to the point, it shows that Backblaze cares more about content marketing SEO than HDD reliability.
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#29I love the data, but I'm a little mad that Hitachi had to die as a company and got sold into pieces.
I'm not sure if I trust what you guys did, calling the old Hitachi Drives as HGST. Technically, the 3.5" drives from Hitachi got sold to Toshiba.
For example, the Toshiba DT01ACA300 is allegedly the same design as the Hitachi 7k3000.
In the following link, note that the "HDS723030BLE640" is the model number to the 7k3000 with ridiculously low failure rates in the Backblaze study.
http://goughlui.com/2013/02/26/toshiba-dt01aca300-aka-hitach...
I don't know if HGST drives are related to the old Hitachi models at all.
Again, I hate to criticize such awesome research that you've given away for free in your blog. But I'd definitely would like some research and clarification on the Hitachi -> Toshiba or Hitachi -> HGST situation.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Evergreen, now there's a euphemism. :-) I appreciate, in the end you have to do what gets you the most views, however, from my perspective missing out the date means you prefer to waste my time as I have to scan the article until I get a feel for how old it is. I would read anything written within 6 months and would consider up to 12 months if the information was high quality. It's not like we're overburdened with qu…
Note to the point, it shows that Backblaze cares more about content marketing SEO than HDD reliability.
It'd be better if they put the date on, but I don't see Amazon or Facebook or Google sharing their reliability data. As long as backblaze is more open than the industry standard, I think that's as a good thing regardless of their motives.