Andy Klein – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 https://noise.getoto.net/2025/02/11/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2024/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111927 The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2024 https://noise.getoto.net/2024/11/12/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111726 Read the latest annualized failure rates for the Backblaze drive fleet.

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]]> Quoth the Drive Stats, Nevermore: An Elegy for Our Seagate 4TB Drives https://noise.getoto.net/2024/10/31/quoth-the-drive-stats-nevermore-an-elegy-for-our-seagate-4tb-drives/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:05:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111704 R.I.P. from the Backblaze drive fleet, Seagate 4TB. Let's look back upon their journey.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2024 https://noise.getoto.net/2024/08/06/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2024/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111463 Read the Q2 2024 Drive Stats Report, with the latest on annualized failure rates and a look into measuring drive consistency over time.

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]]> How Backblaze Scales Our Storage Cloud https://noise.getoto.net/2024/05/21/how-backblaze-scales-our-storage-cloud/ Tue, 21 May 2024 16:05:00 +0000 https://backblaze.com/blog/?p=111213 As Backblaze scales, maximizing data storage is a priority. Here's how we're migrating data to larger drives, which allows us to store more data per rack.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024 https://noise.getoto.net/2024/05/02/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/ Thu, 02 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://backblaze.com/blog/?p=111151 Read the Q1 2024 Drive Stats report, including the latest annualized failure rates (AFRs) and a check in on the average age of drives.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for 2023 https://noise.getoto.net/2024/02/13/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2023/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110853 Read the 2023 Drive Stats Report and the latest insights on drive failure from Andy Klein.

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]]> The Drive Stats of Backblaze Storage Pods https://noise.getoto.net/2024/01/03/the-drive-stats-of-backblaze-storage-pods/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:53:22 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110650 Since 2013, Backblaze has written about the failure rates of drives. Let's take that a step further and look at Drive Stats in our fleet of storage servers.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023 https://noise.getoto.net/2023/11/14/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110367 Read the quarterly and lifetime failure rates for Backblaze hard drives.

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]]> The SSD Edition: 2023 Drive Stats Mid-Year Review https://noise.getoto.net/2023/09/26/the-ssd-edition-2023-drive-stats-mid-year-review/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=109834 Read the SSD Edition: 2023 Drive Stats Mid-Year Review and share your thoughts in the comments.

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]]> SSD 101: How to Upgrade Your Computer With an SSD https://noise.getoto.net/2023/08/25/ssd-101-how-to-upgrade-your-computer-with-an-ssd/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:47:09 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=70831 Adding or upgrading an SSD is one of the most popular do-it-yourself computer projects. Read this post to learn more about why you would want to add an SSD and how to do it.

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]]> Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2023 https://noise.getoto.net/2023/08/03/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2023/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=109338 Read the full Q2 2023 Drive Stats report is here, and we've added some data points and new drives to the data.

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