Re:Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand...
by zorlem on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @08:55AM
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>This isn't Dropbox and nowhere as reliable as S3 - its literally as if you're renting remote consumer external drives for offsite backup
What are their reliability promises? I think that they're doing some mirroring of the data, but I'm still not sure about the rest of their service details.
I'm considering using them for backups, but have not decided yet.
I came upon this [1] discussion here, from 3 years ago. I'm diving in :)
Yeah, the pods are really sweet and they provide all the design documents [2]!
What are their reliability promises? I think that they're doing some mirroring of the data, but I'm still not sure about the rest of their service details.
I'm considering using them for backups, but have not decided yet.
I came upon this [1] discussion here, from 3 years ago. I'm diving in :)
Yeah, the pods are really sweet and they provide all the design documents [2]!
[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803136
[2]: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...
edit: added additional details about the design