Optimizing your cloud performance means understanding four key factors: latency, throughput, availability, and durability.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Two key metrics for measuring cloud storage performance are durability and availability. We look at what they are and why they are important.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
This post explains how to build a caching layer around object storage| Personal blog of Anurag Bhatia
Have you ever thought about all the awful, terrible things that can happen to a hard drive? And what are they, exactly?| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
We’ve calculated Backblaze’s storage durability at 99.999999999%. What does that impressively large number mean, and does it actually matter for your data?| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Senior Vice President of Engineering Tina Cessna kicks off a series of articles discussing how her team is continually improving our exabyte-scale platform.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Imagine having 270,000 drives that over the next several years will need to be replaced, or migrated as is often the term used.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
A problem that would have been discovered in the future would now be captured by the SMART stats when the process reads that section of disk today.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Backblaze Vaults are not only incredibly durable, scalable, and performant, but they dramatically improve availability and operability.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Take a whimsical look at how a hard drive "Zach" gets put to use in Backblaze's cloud storage data center.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
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.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Dive into Backblaze's analysis of storage server performance, exploring Drive Stats, Storage Pods, and insights on drive failure rates since 2009.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
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