Year: 2016

Mixergy Interviews Backblaze CEO

Recently, our fearless leader, Gleb, did an interview with Andrew Warner for Mixergy! The topic was entrepreneurship and launching a company without venture capital. The interview is about an hour and a half long, but we decided to write up a bit of a TL/DR version along with some key takeaways and time stamps. You… Continue reading Mixergy Interviews Backblaze CEO

Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015

By the end of 2015, the Backblaze datacenter had 56,224 spinning hard drives containing customer data. These hard drives reside in 1,249 Backblaze Storage Pods. By comparison 2015 began with 39,690 drives running in 882 Storage Pods. We added 65 Petabytes of storage in 2015 give or take a Petabyte or two. Not only was 2015 a year of growth, it was also a year of drive upgrades and replacements. Let’s start with the current state of the hard drives in our datacenter as of the end of 2015 and then dig into the rest later on.

What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug

On February 11th, 2016, Adobe released an update to Creative Cloud (V 3.5.0.206) which, as they put it, “…in some scenarios the application may incorrectly remove files with user writeable permissions from the system root directory.” You can find their release notes here. This meant that if you were an Adobe Creative Cloud customer on… Continue reading What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug

Latest Adobe Creative Cloud Update Breaks Backblaze

Adobe Systems recently pushed an update to their Adobe Suite of products and services. On the Mac platform, updating one of these services, Adobe Creative Cloud (version: 3.5.0.206), will disable Backblaze from backing up your primary computer drive. This occurs once you have updated to the latest version of Adobe Creative Cloud. This does not… Continue reading Latest Adobe Creative Cloud Update Breaks Backblaze

Senior Network Sys Admin Wanted!

Backblaze is hiring and we need a Senior Network Sys Admin to join our operations team! Want to help us grow and continue on as a leader in cloud storage? Check out the job description and the steps to apply below…

Introducing: Restore, Return, Refund

Editor’s note: On March 3, 2022, Backblaze ended the USB flash drive restore option. While we parted ways with USB flash drives, we continue to offer many options for restoring your files—explore ways to recover your data here. We’d like to introduce you to the Backblaze “Restore, Return, Refund” Program, which is an exciting addition… Continue reading Introducing: Restore, Return, Refund

Storage Pod 5.0 Hack: One Power Supply

In November we introduced and open-sourced the design to Storage Pod 5.0. Extensively redesigned using our Agile hardware design process, Storage Pod 5.0 was the least expensive storage solution we’ve ever designed, until now. With one simple hack, you can now have 180TB of storage for about a $0.05 a gigabyte if you build it… Continue reading Storage Pod 5.0 Hack: One Power Supply