In its annual report, cloud provider Backblaze shows which hard drives are reliable, which show weaknesses, and how failure rates are developing.

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.

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today published its 2025 Year-End Drive Stats report. The report analyzes the performance of 344,196 hard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...