Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
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#2How have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it's backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives.
Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actual drives and not SD card pairs or something, like how vSANs are often set up.
Re: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
#3How have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it's backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives. Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actua…
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Re: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
#4How have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it's backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives. Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actua…
Yep, the latest pods have 60 drives:
Re: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
#5I've enjoyed the Backblaze hard drive failure rate posts for years, but never realized they publish the underlying data! https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html (scroll down)
It looks quite detailed--a daily snapshot of all of the SMART values for each individual hard drive.
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#6World's biggest cake
See the video how they made and how it looks
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See the video of Cute dog walking at rope Even humans can't do this http://bit.ly/2VupwSQ
Re: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
#7I've enjoyed the Backblaze hard drive failure rate posts for years, but never realized they publish the underlying data! https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html (scroll down) It looks quite detailed--a daily snapshot of all of the SMART values for each individual hard drive.
Yev here -> Glad you like it! The SMART stats are definitely entertaining for folks who want to do a deeper-dive!
Re: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
#8How have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it's backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives. Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actua…
The latest design has 3 4-port sata cards, with each port running to a 5-port backplane, which connect to the drives.
Re: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
#9How have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it's backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives. Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actua…
Yep, the latest pods have 60 drives: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html
Using 16TB drives you will get 9.6 Petabyes of storage per Pod 6.0. It would fit you circa 21,276 blu-ray rips.
Re: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
#10I've enjoyed the Backblaze hard drive failure rate posts for years, but never realized they publish the underlying data! https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html (scroll down) It looks quite detailed--a daily snapshot of all of the SMART values for each individual hard drive.
I don’t know why but every time I read one I’m never disappointed. I find the data fascinating. I wish more companies would give information like this but on memory, cpus etc also.