Here it is: the much-anticipated story of what's next with Backblaze Storage Pods. | Continue reading
As we move forward to releasing Backblaze Cloud Replication to the general public, we want you to understand it first. Read this post to learn more. | Continue reading
Read the latest report on the Q2 2022 and lifetime failure rates of our data drives, with insights and observations on the failure rates of the 200,000+ drives in our environment. | Continue reading
How long do hard drives last? We looked to the Drive Stats data to find out. | Continue reading
Learn how to navigate free cloud tiers and avoid surprise bills with this guide. | Continue reading
Read the latest trends and news in ransomware from Q2 2022. | Continue reading
Learn about the history of Python's GIL and what the future holds for it. | Continue reading
Read the Backblaze Drive Stats report for Q1 2022 with the latest data on over 200,000 hard drives, including quarterly and lifetime results on which drives work best in our environment. And, May the fourth be with you! | Continue reading
Have you heard of a yottabyte but can't quite define it? We break it down in technical terms and visualize just how big it is. | Continue reading
Over the past 15 years, Backblaze has established a track record of transparency by sharing everything we can about our work, from publishing our Drive Stats to exploring how we grew our business. After becoming a publicly traded company this past November, we now have a whole ne … | Continue reading
Learn more about how you can migrate your data to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage at no cost to you. | Continue reading
Check out our top references to backups in pop culture, and don't be an April Fool—help your friends and family back up their data today. | Continue reading
Learn the differences between full, incremental, differential, and synthetic full backups as well as the pros and cons of each. | Continue reading
USB flash drive restores are going away, but you have many options to restore your files. Check them out in this post. | Continue reading
Our annual 2021 Drive Stats report with the latest data on the 200,000+ drives in our data centers is here. See results from the past three years as well as lifetime stats. | Continue reading
What are you missing when you use a sync service without a backup? Find out in this post. | Continue reading
Learn how our Growth team developed their internship program to bring more value to both the interns and the company. | Continue reading
We followed up on our initial drive life study in 2013 with data from over 200,000 disk drives. Read this post to see the latest from our reporting on the life expectancy of the drives in our data centers. | Continue reading
Are containers on track to replace virtual machines? It's not a simple answer—in this post, we weigh in on the debate. | Continue reading
SAN MATEO—November 2, 2021. Backblaze, Inc. (“Backblaze”), a leading storage cloud platform, today announced that it has launched the roadshow for its initial public offering. Backblaze has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (th … | Continue reading
Read our latest report on the Q3 2021 and lifetime failure rates of our data drives, with insights and observations on the failure rates of the 190,000+ drives in our environment, including HDD and SSD boot drives. | Continue reading
Read this post to learn how drive failure rates fit the bathtub curve in 2021 compared with our 2013 drive stats data. | Continue reading
Learn more about how our Drive Stats data was used in a research paper that examined whether the application of algorithms for interpretable machine learning would predict drive failure and provide meaningful insights about drive health. | Continue reading
A look at what multi-cloud is, how it works, its benefits, and considerations to keep in mind when rolling out a multi-cloud strategy. | Continue reading
Read about our newest partnership with Vultr—the largest privately-owned, global hyperscale cloud—that provides developers and businesses with infrastructure as a service that’s easier to use and lower cost than perhaps better known alternatives. | Continue reading
Read our latest report on the Q2 2021 and lifetime failure rates of our data drives, with insights and observations on the failure rates of our HDD and SSD boot drives. | Continue reading
Read this post to take a journey through Seagate's hard drive manufacturing facility. | Continue reading
If you’re responsible for the care and feeding of a business’ or organization’s IT infrastructure, you understand the risks ransomware poses. | Continue reading
Read this post to learn more about updates to our Computer Backup pricing plans. | Continue reading
Deciding whether we should farm Chia in the cloud took an in depth analysis. Here are the results. | Continue reading
Our latest version is pretty great: It cranks up the speed—letting you upload at whatever rate your local system can attain. | Continue reading
Each month we build 60 or so new Storage Pods, which require 60 CPUs, 720 SATA cables, 120 power supplies, and so on. | Continue reading
This rebrand covers a number of subtle and not-so-subtle changes. Take a look behind the scenes to discover the how and why. | Continue reading
Read about the challenge of farming Chia plots using cloud storage, and how a Backblaze team experimented with B2 Cloud Storage to provide for this use case. | Continue reading
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions: Click Here. At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and … | Continue reading
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website. | Continue reading
Ransomware is growing every year. We take a look at what it is, how to recover from an attack, and how to prevent attacks from happening. | Continue reading
A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives. | Continue reading
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website. | Continue reading
Learn how to start managing infrastructure for DevOps projects using Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and Terraform. | Continue reading
This post looks at the lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models in operation in our data centers in 2020. | Continue reading
In this post, we’re sharing about the Backblaze Engineering team's conversation regarding the idea of changing the terms used to describe branches in our repositories, and the effort that resulted from that discussion. | Continue reading
This review looks at the Q3 2020 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models currently in operation in our data centers. We also share a handful of insights and observations along the way. | Continue reading
Hard drive failure rates on an annualized and quarterly basis for 139,867 hard drives by make and manufacturer. | Continue reading
Backblaze S3 Compatible APIs are in general availability. Migrate your data from S3 to Backblaze and we'll pay for the transfer. | Continue reading
You've probably heard of threads and processes before but you may not know how they work within a program. It’s time to take a closer look. | Continue reading