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Backblaze Blog
Company blog · backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/blogsystemsdata
Backblaze Blog is the company blog at backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com, writing about systems and data. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Backblaze Blog's data-heavy posts on hard drive reliability and failure tables, and on drive price trends, as sources for their own points about storage hardware.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I don't think so, their posts still have all the details and the Seagates stick out like a very sore thumb in their tables: https://backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads... and graphs: https://backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads... Since it's not in interest of Backblaze or anyone to smear their brand It is if they want to negotiate pricing; and even in the past, Seagates were usually…
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on “Are hard drives getting better?”Submitted Moving 670 Network Connections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEven prior to the current AI-driven hardware shortages, hard drive prices stopped decreasing in about 2020: https://backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads...
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on “S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past”Submitted Backblaze Network Stats: Real-World Measurements from Backblaze US-Wes as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
