Brian Beach

Brian has been writing software for three decades at HP Labs, Silicon Graphics, Netscape, TiVo, and now Backblaze. His passion is building things that make life better, like the TiVo DVR and Backblaze Online Backup.

Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture

June 18, 2019

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Backblaze Open-sources Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding Source Code

June 16, 2015

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Reliability Data Set for 41,000 Hard Drives Now Open-source

February 4, 2015

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What Is the Best Hard Drive?

January 21, 2015

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Hard Drive SMART Stats

November 12, 2014

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Hard Drive Reliability Update: September 2014

September 23, 2014

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Hard Drive Temperature—Does It Matter?

May 12, 2014

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What Hard Drive Should I Buy?

January 21, 2014

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Enterprise Drives: Fact or Fiction?

December 4, 2013

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