Backblaze Hard Drive Stats

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats by cyberlab on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:01AM (#26699936)

I always wondered: what happens to customer data when these drives fail? I would imagine they would be using fault tolerant systems like RAID of ZFS to mitigate. I admire their transparency in the usual style of: 'We're a backup company, look how many drives we have failing!'

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats by mcdevilkiller on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:16AM (#26700134)

You can read on their blog. They use custom software with Reed-Solomon* erasure coding, similar to RAID but distributed between different disks, servers and racks. Their EC library is on Github (Java). The most enjoyable posts are the ones describing how they built their pods and architecture.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats by gsruff on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:17AM (#26700146)

Their systems are fault tolerant... I found more information on their storage architecture here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

[edited to sound less snarky]

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats by m4rtink on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:53PM (#26701438)

I guess the could encrypt the data that ends up on the platters so that it would look like random noise to any attacker recovering the platters from a broken drive that was not physically destroyed?

Of course that has both performance and data corruption scenarios that one needs to take into account.

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