Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
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Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
#2What Backblaze is doing here is so underrated. This a large scale, practical, in-datacenter real data on essential hardware infrastructure that is available almost nowhere else, and they provide it, and their excellent analysis, completely for free.
I miss this culture and I admire leadership that allows it to not only exist, but thrive. I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see the decommissioned pennies they can save by limiting or stopping these reports.
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
#3What Backblaze is doing here is so underrated. This a large scale, practical, in-datacenter real data on essential hardware infrastructure that is available almost nowhere else, and they provide it, and their excellent analysis, completely for free. I miss this culture and I admire leadership that allows it to not only exist, but thrive. I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see…
is there any danger this data is biased?
Everything good gets corrupted eventually (amazon reviews, consumer reports, ..). is it possible they get some kickbacks for positive reviews ?
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
#4What Backblaze is doing here is so underrated. This a large scale, practical, in-datacenter real data on essential hardware infrastructure that is available almost nowhere else, and they provide it, and their excellent analysis, completely for free. I miss this culture and I admire leadership that allows it to not only exist, but thrive. I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see…
is there any danger this data is biased? Everything good gets corrupted eventually (amazon reviews, consumer reports, ..). is it possible they get some kickbacks for positive reviews ?
It's always possible. But I haven't seen anything that would imply this to be the case so far in all the years I've been reading this.
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
#5Given the upcoming 2 year enterprise data shortage coming up due to hyperscalers, I'm curious how this will affect Backblaze.
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
#6What Backblaze is doing here is so underrated. This a large scale, practical, in-datacenter real data on essential hardware infrastructure that is available almost nowhere else, and they provide it, and their excellent analysis, completely for free. I miss this culture and I admire leadership that allows it to not only exist, but thrive. I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see…
What it buys is long-term good will. Engineers will see they know their stuff and suggest them as a solution for projects and people.
That said, all it would take is for the wrong leadership to start cutting corners to undo all of this hard work.
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#7Given the upcoming 2 year enterprise data shortage coming up due to hyperscalers, I'm curious how this will affect Backblaze.
That is SSD/Memory.
These are HDDs.
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
#8What Backblaze is doing here is so underrated. This a large scale, practical, in-datacenter real data on essential hardware infrastructure that is available almost nowhere else, and they provide it, and their excellent analysis, completely for free. I miss this culture and I admire leadership that allows it to not only exist, but thrive. I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see…
This is the main reason I use them for their S3 compatible storage service over their competitors. While its not enterprise level revenue, I still like to think it makes a difference.
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#9While I find this data interesting it isnt usually very actionable.
The skus with the lowest number immediately get bought out(if they are still available, which they are not always) and will never be available. You also always run the risk of "getting a bad batch" or just getting some drives that got beat up in shipping.
Usually this data is only useful for keeping an eye on your own stuff and prioritizing replacements when the time comes.
When buying drives I just look at the sizes I need and the performance then get 1/3rd from each of the manufacturers.
Re: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
#10What Backblaze is doing here is so underrated. This a large scale, practical, in-datacenter real data on essential hardware infrastructure that is available almost nowhere else, and they provide it, and their excellent analysis, completely for free. I miss this culture and I admire leadership that allows it to not only exist, but thrive. I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see…
> I fear the day a stockholder meeting occurs and someone wringing their hands see the decommissioned pennies they can save by limiting or stopping these reports.
The Backblaze stock has taken a beating over the years. Recently I saw some news that there were issues with financial reporting (and fraud?). So it’s anybody’s guess as to what may happen or if the company would even be around (as it exists now) in the next decade.
I’d guess they may already have tools in place to prepare the stats and charts, leaving some amount of writing as manual work (which could or would probably be offloaded to generative AI). But analyzing the reliability of drives and publishing the data could also be seen as a competitive advantage when comparing with newer companies (positive and negative).