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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/
"In 2020, Backblaze added 39,792 hard drives and as of December 31, 2020
we had 165,530 drives under management. Of that number, there were 3,000
boot drives and 162,530 data drives. We...
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/
"At the end of Q1 2020, Backblaze was using 129,959 hard drives to store
customer data. For our evaluation we remove from consideration those
drives that were used for testing purposes and...
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/
"As of June 30, 2019, Backblaze had 110,640 spinning hard drives in our
ever-expanding cloud storage ecosystem. Of that number, there were 1,980
boot drives and 108,660 data drives. This review...
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2,753 |
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/
"As of September 30, 2019, Backblaze had 115,151 spinning hard drives
spread across four data centers on two continents. Of that number, there
were 2,098 boot drives and 113,053 data...
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2,701 |
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"Backing Up for Small Business" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backing Up for Small Business"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backing-up-for-small-business/
"Here’s another sobering statistic: Lots of businesses never backup their data. One-third, according to one recent survey. Talk about
flying without a net! What’s worse, almost half of all...
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"BIOS problem" solved by
Linea Recta[_2_]
22-9-2014 I started a thead "Subject: how can BIOS boot priority settings
change all by itself??"
Today customer had bootproblems again. Message: diskdrive failed.
Couldn't believe that because I had fitted a new drive.
I booted into the BIOS setup and was baffled when I saw the detected...
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"chirp" every 5-10 seconds by
Lady Margaret Thatcher
My system is starting to make this "chirping" sound every 5-10
seconds. I haven't confirmed it yet, but I'm assuming that one of my
four drives is the source of this noise.
Aside from bearing noise, what are other possible sources of this
noise? These drives are all SCSI U160 or 320. More...
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July 12th 06 03:28 PM
by Adam
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"Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time" by
Lynn McGuire[_2_]
"Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time"
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/consumer-grade-ssds-actually-last-a-hell-of-a-long-time/
I've got four of the Intel 5xx series here in the
office with no failures. Three of them are over a
year old.
Lynn
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December 26th 06 09:07 PM
by phreak
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"Drive Stats Update" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Drive Stats Update"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/drive-stats-update/
"What we’re seeing in our fleet right now is a higher-than-typical
failure rate among some of our 12TB Seagate drives."
Uh-oh.
Lynn
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"Exabyte Unlocked" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Exabyte Unlocked"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/exabyte-unlocked/
"We’ve reached 1."
"Or, by another measurement, we’ve reached 1,000,000,000,000,000,000."
"Yes, today, we’re announcing that we are storing 1 exabyte of customer
data."
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1,360 |
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"Failed SMART usage Attribute: 9 Power_On_Hours."? by
Ant[_3_]
Hi.
Is this error something to worry about quickly (will have to buy a new
HDD if it is urgent. but they are expensive due to Thailand's flood :()?
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:58:13 -0700
From: root
To: root
Subject: SMART error (Usage) detected on host: FooBar
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"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives"
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-class-action-lawsuit-smr-hard-drive
"Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs
for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western
Digital (WD) for...
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"Hard Disk Drive (HDD) vs Solid State Drive (SSD): What’s the Diff?" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Hard Disk Drive (HDD) vs Solid State Drive (SSD): What’s the Diff?"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hdd-versus-ssd-whats-the-diff/
"If you’re still using a computer with a SATA hard drive, you can see a
huge performance increase by switching to an SSD. What’s more, the cost
of SSDs has...
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"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
"For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. For the
past 35+ years or so, hard drives prices have dropped, from around
$500,000 per gigabyte in 1981 to less than $0.03 per gigabyte...
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