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Backblaze Blog
Company blog · backblaze.com/blog · on HN as atYevPsystemsdata
Backblaze Blog is the company blog at backblaze.com, writing about systems and data. Since 2009, 711 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,298 times, most often “Cloud Storage Pricing Calculator”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Neoclouds, GenAI devs, and AI-forward builders rely on B2 Cloud Storage for high-throughput, data-heavy workloads. S3-compatible object storage without limits.
Most-linked posts?
- Cloud Storage Pricing Calculator39 people · 42 mentions · first linked 2015-12-18
- Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage is now in open beta36 people · 37 mentions · first linked 2015-09-23
- The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy28 people · 34 mentions · first linked 2015-04-08
- Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server25 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2016-04-25
- Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte20 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2017-07-11
- Backblaze Hard Drive Stats20 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2016-05-17
- Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture18 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2015-03-11
- Farming Hard Drives (2012)17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2015-09-04
- Backblaze Open Sources Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding Source Code14 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2015-06-16
- /12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2011-02-01
What Hacker News says?
>I also think firms should be able to buy "blank space." For example facebook or amazon could pay NOT to have an ad above their result. Maybe they already do, I dont see an ad when I search facebook, however I do see an ad for amazon above the top amazon result. Backblaze had a competitor who bought ads for the search term "backblaze". The CEO successfully contacted the competitor CEO and they agreed they'd be in a…
Comment linking /blog/save-marketing-money-nice/
on “Every Google result now looks like an ad”Submitted Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 as a story · 646 points
HN discussionWhat about something like B2 from https://www.backblaze.com/ ?
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on “Ask HN: Is S3 down?”Submitted Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs as a story · 641 points
HN discussionBackblaze's B2 is an S3 near-clone: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html I don't know about reliability, but it's a fraction of the price of S3.
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on “Ask HN: Is S3 down?”Submitted Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business as a story · 476 points
HN discussionAs you mentioned, huge fan of Backblaze B2. No affiliation, just a satisfied customer. Can also pair it with Cloudflare for even less expensive traffic serving. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part...
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on “Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service”Submitted Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 as a story · 448 points
HN discussionGetting something for cheaper because of marketing-driven pricing, wasting time dealing with empty shells you don't want, reimbursing the customer... You have all those elements when backblaze was shucking drives en masse, but nobody would say that was fraud in any way. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ If you intentionally sell a product for cheaper than you buy it to build market share (I thi…
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on “Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage”Submitted What is the best hard drive? as a story · 446 points
HN discussionThere are a limited number of hard drive manufacturers. All of them had reliability issues at some point. Like the IBM "deathstar" and the Seagate "failacuda", I don't know about an equivalent from WD. Reliability come and go, and you don't even know when you buy because problems can take years to develop, and it is dependent on usage. Backblaze does a survey every quarter, here is the latest one https://www.backbla…
Comment linking /blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2021/
on “WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted”Submitted Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015 as a story · 412 points
HN discussionHere's an explanation with some real-world data: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/ (Also, my hard drives always fail after I put them in the bathtub. Lol.)
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on “WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted”Submitted Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as a story · 411 points
HN discussionI don't want to feel like an advertisement, but here are some "expensive" services that make me feel that I'm using their product instead of being their product. The following are some services I'm proud to pay their amount for. https://www.fastmail.com/ for email https://vimeo.com/ for 4K HD video uploads https://www.backblaze.com/ for backup https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files for sharing files and photos to peo…
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on “Alternatives to Google Products”Submitted What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug as a story · 397 points
HN discussionhttps://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... ; it's what I use to keep anything in cold storage that can't immediately go into the Internet Archive or that they're unable to dark after I upload.
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on “YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More”Submitted Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 as a story · 385 points
HN discussionBackblaze keeps good stats. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive... 1.71% a year failure rate if you care for the hardware as much as they do.
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on “Internet Archive: Security breach alert”Submitted Hard Drive Stats for 2019 as a story · 355 points
HN discussion50 PB * $0.014/GB = $0.7M. $0.014/GB is from[1], bare drive cost without chassis, power, or redundancy. 1: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
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on “Internet Archive: Security breach alert”Submitted Raising Prices Is Hard as a story · 353 points
HN discussionSpindles? That sounds like a ridiculous amount burn rate - it should be no more than 5-10% a YEAR. Backblaze reports only 1.6% quarterly failure rate https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
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on “Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended”Submitted Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0 as a story · 338 points
HN discussionYev from Backblaze here -> I chimed in below but wanted to let you know hat we've finished our root cause analysis and have updated our blog post with some additional information: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr... .
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on “Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook”Submitted Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 as a story · 335 points
HN discussionYev here - Tobr, thank you for being a customer. Wanted to let you know that we've updated our blog post after finishing our root cause analysis. You can read about what happened here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr... .
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on “Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook”Submitted Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 as a story · 325 points
HN discussionYev here -> thanks for being a customer! We've finished our root cause analysis and updated our blog post with additional information -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr... .
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on “Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook”Submitted Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter as a story · 319 points
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