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How to Make Strong Encryption Easy to Use
This post was originally written to describe the encryption process for Backblaze Personal Backup. To learn more about our security methods today, including our processes regarding Backblaze B2 Cloud...
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Brian’s 10 Rules for How to Write Cross-Platform Code
Introduction I’ve had a lot of success in my 20-year software engineering career with developing cross platform C and C++ code. At Backblaze, we just released the Mac beta version of our online backup...
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Backblaze Storage Pod: Vendors, Tips, and Tricks
Last month’s blog post about building our Backblaze Storage Pods generated a ton of interest and many people are building their own Pods! Our post also generated a ton of questions so, below we answer...
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User Builds “Extreme Media Server” Based on a Backblaze Storage Pod
Don Honabach has the honor of being the first person to successfully build his own Backblaze Storage Pod. (At least the first we know about.) With four servers running at home for media storage, Don...
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The Future of the Data Center Is Green: Takeaways From the WiredRE Data...
What do the following have in common: Google providing search, Coca-Cola operating its systems to track inventory, and Backblaze backing up your data? The computers that handle all of this live in...
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Data Survivability With Ultrabook SSDs: A Dropped Zenbook and Teardown Findings
New Ultrabook Design Decisions Limit Data Recovery Options When my girlfriend recently dropped (and killed) her new Ultrabook, I found out the Solid State Drive (SSD) inside of it was not easily...
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Enterprise Drives: Fact or Fiction?
Last month I dug into drive failure rates based on the 25,000+ consumer drives we have and found that consumer drives actually performed quite well. Over 100,000 people read that blog post and one of...
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What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
For the most recent Hard Drive Reliability Statistics, as well as the raw hard drive test data, visit Hard Drive Data and Stats. My last two blog posts were about expected drive lifetimes and drive...
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Hard Drive Temperature—Does It Matter?
How much does operating temperature affect the failure rates of disk drives? Not much. The unlimited online backup service provided by Backblaze requires a lot of storage. In fact, we recently passed...
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