Backblaze has announced a new 60-drive version of its Storage Pod, which reduces the cost of storage by 22 percent compared with the previous 45-drive version. The hardware design is open source, and ...

How often do servers really fail? If Backblaze’s 61,523 operational hard drives are any indication, not often. On average, Backblaze reports its drives have a fail rate of 1.84 percent in Q1 2016.

Want to launch your own high-capacity networked storage infrastructure? Backblaze just shared its new 180-terabyte Storage Pod design. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

New AI-powered Anomaly Alerts, enterprise web console, and role-based access controls underscore commitment to data security and simplified management. Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud ...

If Hollywood ever needs a cloud storage facility for a movie scene, they need to call the folks at online storage and backup company Backblaze. You can just picture Tom Cruise, playing a secret agent ...

Acronis and Backblaze are some of the most popular backup services available, but their ideal use cases differ. See which solution is the best fit for your business. Data has become the world’s most ...

The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

My son is currently using an old PC I had been using as the household file storage. It has a couple of 4 TB spinners with a good deal of family photos/videos, and other digital accretion accumulated ...

The folks at Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company located in San Mateo, California, published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs ...