Brian Beach

About the Author

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 by Brian Beach // 150 Comments

Backblaze Open-sources Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding Source Code

June 16, 2015 by Brian Beach // 25 Comments

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

February 4, 2015 by Brian Beach // 33 Comments

What Is the Best Hard Drive?

January 21, 2015 by Brian Beach // 173 Comments

Hard Drive SMART Stats

November 12, 2014 by Brian Beach // 42 Comments

Hard Drive Reliability Update: September 2014

September 23, 2014 by Brian Beach // 98 Comments

Hard Drive Temperature—Does It Matter?

May 12, 2014 by Brian Beach // 43 Comments

What Hard Drive Should I Buy?

January 21, 2014 by Brian Beach // 100 Comments

Enterprise Drives: Fact or Fiction?

December 4, 2013 by Brian Beach // 35 Comments