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Backblaze HDD 'Reliability Stats' ... ...

This 3 year old 5 page article is worth a read for all that have seen the 'Backblaze' headlines in numerous articles about HDD reliability. There are many more articles on this subject by competent tech journalists who have followed the Backblaze publicity saga saga start to finish.

>> Dispelling Backblaze's HDD Reliability Myth - The Real Story Covered

Paul Alcorn
TweakTown | IT/Datacenter
January 24, 2014

tweaktown.com

<snip rest: full text of the 5 page article is available at the link above>

36 recent slides from Backblaze below:
Behind the Curtain of Backblaze Hard Drive Stats
May 24, 2017 by Rich Brueckner

insidehpc.com


Video of the presentation



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