10 Stories From 10 Years Of Drive Stats Data At Backblaze
StorageNewsletter.com, April 10th, 2023
On April 10, 2013, Backblaze saved its first daily HDD snapshot file. It had decided to start saving these daily snapshots to improve its understanding of the burgeoning collection of HDDs the firm was using to store customer data.
Little did we know at the time that we'd be collecting the data for the next 10 years or writing various Drive Stats reports that are read by millions, but here we are.
I've been at Backblaze longer than Drive Stats and probably know the drive stats data and history better than most, so let's spend the next few minutes getting beyond the quarterly and lifetime tables and charts and I'll tell you some stories from behind the scenes of Drive Stats over the past 10 years.