My company uses Backblaze since I think it's a good product, but blogs like this really cemented my choice. I appreciate their attention to detail and publishing data openly.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
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#92Tangentially related. Whenever I get a new drive, I always do a "burn-in". A program writes data to the whole drive and then reads it back (reproducible random data). Is there any real justification for doing this kind of test on a new drive? Doing it takes quite awhile, so I've been wondering lately if it's even worth it. I've never found anything with it.
If you've never found anything with it, why do you keep doing it (see: the definition of insanity)?
Why do you back up drives if you've never had a failure?
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#93My company uses Backblaze since I think it's a good product, but blogs like this really cemented my choice. I appreciate their attention to detail and publishing data openly.
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#94I wonder if any of those companies talk to Backblaze about it. Like sending drives back for inspection :) I'm also curious why those companies wouldn't directly talk to backblaze. I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale.
Yev from Backblaze here -> > I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale. Yea, we used to buy drives wherever we could, but that was years ago. We're larger now so we go through more established channels.
Also no natural disasters taking out the manufacturers again, right?
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment is frankly incredibly arrogant - "I can't be bothered to click and skim through the short post, so hurry up and summarize the contents for me."
Ten people give their opinions, as requested. One person thinks you're arrogant and tells you so. You can't argue with results.
What's the old line? If you have a problem with your Linux system, don't post asking how to fix it because you'll get nothing; post saying how Linux sucks because this thing doesn't work and you'll get a dozen replies in an hour.
Sometimes, personality dynamics cause certain approaches to work better than one might prefer. :)
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yev from Backblaze here -> > I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale. Yea, we used to buy drives wherever we could, but that was years ago. We're larger now so we go through more established channels.
Also no natural disasters taking out the manufacturers again, right?
Can't really count on those NOT happening - but we are more prepared now ;)
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you've never found anything with it, why do you keep doing it (see: the definition of insanity)?
I have. Last time I bought a bunch of drives for a RAID array, I used the WD utility to test each of them. 1 of the 6 failed the test.
The first time I learned about burnin, it was because the drives for our RAID array showed up three days before we were supposed to start experimenting. Two of the ten were DOA. FED-EX got us replacements in two days. One of those was dead.
So then I started doing math on MTBF and lots of drives and things looked bleak. Just a couple years later MTBF had gone way up and continued to climb for a while after, but at that particular moment it was something like eight months between failure of you had any more drives than we had and just accelerated from there.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased. :-) > If you have terabytes to back up, are there still any backup services left that'll let you ship them a drive for a faster initial backup? Backblaze offers a "Backblaze Rapid Ingest Fireball" to allow you to ship us 60 TBytes of data on an appliance. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/introducing-backblazes-rapid-... If you only have 2 - 10 TBytes, I suggest you get a f…
It's been over a year, can you please ask someone at backblaze to add a single line of code into the snapshots so you can leave a comment? Right now if you make a snapshot, the only info is the date and time. Not the data, what's in the snapshot, literally anything about it. Please!
That is going to be way more than a single line of code, come on man.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also no natural disasters taking out the manufacturers again, right?
Can't really count on those NOT happening - but we are more prepared now ;)
Yeah I mean that was the impetus for buying them off the shelves, wasn’t it? It was a crisis management technique not a business plan :)
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#100I realize my comment is a tangent. I'm hoping folks might be understanding and hopefully have some advice. If you have terabytes to back up, are there still any backup services left that'll let you ship them a drive for a faster initial backup?
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased. :-) > If you have terabytes to back up, are there still any backup services left that'll let you ship them a drive for a faster initial backup? Backblaze offers a "Backblaze Rapid Ingest Fireball" to allow you to ship us 60 TBytes of data on an appliance. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/introducing-backblazes-rapid-... If you only have 2 - 10 TBytes, I suggest you get a f…
> You might be surprised how easy and fast it is to upload a couple of TBytes nowadays.
You might be surprised how slow it is in many areas of the US, let alone the world.