Backblaze Starts Tracking Hot Drives As World Preps For Rising Global Temperatures
The Register, Tuesday, November 14,2023
Quarterly stats to show when units exceed manufacturer max temp
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has released its latest drive statistics report, introducing tracking of temperature data for drives and failure rates for each datacenter.
Backblaze, which focuses on cloud-based storage services, issues regular reports on the health and status of the fleet of storage devices under its management, providing useful insights into drive behavior.
For the calendar Q3 Drive Stats report, the company looked at temperature data for its drives and found that a small number of devices had exceeded the manufacturer's maximum level for at least one day.