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Is there any information what lead to Backblaze to stop making their own hardware and going with COTS?
Yep - we explained it all here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-storage-pod-story-innovat...
Does anybody know which Dell product they use? Dell also has JBOD enclosures like Powervault MD2460
We use Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 rack servers in our Amsterdam data center.
Does anybody know which Dell product they use? Dell also has JBOD enclosures like Powervault MD2460
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. We use Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 rack servers in our Amsterdam data center.
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B2 is great if you don't test your backups.
Your comment worries me - are there known data integrity concerns with B2?
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3268#issuecomment-78...
On the other hand, I tested around 15,000 backups last year (multiple hourly backups, daily tests) and they all passed.
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Yea.. the blog post and the terms don't exactly align. Looking at the Terms only, they say "specific Paid Services" and in the Developer Platform Terms, further say > The Cloudflare Developer Platform consists of the following Services: (i) Cloudflare Workers, a Service that permits developers to deploy and run encapsulated versions of their proprietary software source code (each a “Workers Script”) on Cloudflare’s e…
> they specifically call out products which can be used to serve non-html content as part of the Dev Plat, and Workers is not one of them. Ah, but R2 is! My specific question was about whether I could serve video from R2 via the CDN... it sounds like yes, probably? They have not really succeeded in making their terms totally transparent here. I actually have no opinion on how/if workers are involved...
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> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3- ... contains the necessary data, but it seems old. ...is this a joke? That's Q3 2023. Assuming the quarters are calendar quarters, Q4 2023 ended literally 3 days ago. They're not going to have a report out right away.
Maybe you misread it but that link is stats for Q3 2021 - but Q3 2023 is available here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...
GP's link is indeed for Q3 2023.
When I made my comment, I copy/pasted the message which included a truncated link which ends up going to Q3 2021.
Recently got a Synology and have been considering cloud backup needs. Mine would roughly be a terabyte, and so far my thinking is shaking out as: For incrementally backing up laptop data, the process needs to run on my laptop anyway, so I may as well just use Arq. For NAS data that changes frequently enough to desire incrementals, choose Synology Hyperbackup. For NAS data that doesn't change frequently and can just b…
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. > I heard that Backblaze occasionally has weird gotchas that surprise people, like auto-deleting files from your backups that you delete locally, so I just feel cautious. We have two similar products, and it's easy to mix them up. To clarify: Backblaze Computer Backup (a different product from Backblaze B2) deletes old versions of files from your backup…
I use B2 as the backend for my personal backups using restic (which I would highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic ). I don't have a ton of data to backup, so even with hourly backups (restic only backs up when there are changes) I have ~100GB and it runs me a whopping $0.60/month. I almost feel guilty when I get the bill. But the minute I need to pick a storage platform in a professional context I know wh…
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Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. We use Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 rack servers in our Amsterdam data center.
Cool, thanks! Do you put official, expensive Dell drives in there or your own drives?
Absolutely not! The Dell servers have a similar mix of drives as we use in the Backblaze pods and SMC servers.
We added a 'datacenter' field to the Drive Stats data in Q3 2023, so you can download the CSV files and see exactly what's deployed in ams5. See https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...