Comments on: Data Storage Beyond the Hardware: 4 Surprising Questions https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-storage-beyond-the-hardware-4-surprising-questions/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Stephanie Doyle https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-storage-beyond-the-hardware-4-surprising-questions/#comment-330670 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:16:31 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110747#comment-330670 In reply to zelig.

Thanks, and glad we could help clear things up @zelig! New York was the shocking one for me personally — can you imagine the rent?

]]> By: zelig https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-storage-beyond-the-hardware-4-surprising-questions/#comment-330669 Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:13:12 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110747#comment-330669 Fun article! Every factoid is interesting. I regularly wonder why it makes economic sense to situate datacenters in Silicon Valley (expensive land, electricity).

]]> By: DataMeister1 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-storage-beyond-the-hardware-4-surprising-questions/#comment-330663 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:21:07 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110747#comment-330663 I’m not sure I understand how “magnetic fields have differing amounts of energy depending on whether they’re aligned or antialigned”.

Is this like saying a basketball sitting on a table has more energy than a basketball on the floor?

]]> By: Chris Smith https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-storage-beyond-the-hardware-4-surprising-questions/#comment-330665 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:37:17 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110747#comment-330665 Please answer all three of the shortlist questions! Thank you and Backblaze for educating us with these well-researched articles.

]]> By: TommyGun https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-storage-beyond-the-hardware-4-surprising-questions/#comment-330664 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:34:38 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110747#comment-330664 When I saw your table of top 25 carrier hotels in the US with their addresses, I thought what a gold mine for the terrorists. Hopefully, they don’t utilize Backblaze and aren’t into data storage articles. If a terrorist group took out all 25 of those hotels, would that shut down the US internet or is the internet so connected that it wouldn’t succeed other than slowing things down a bit?

]]> By: Loren Pechtel https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-storage-beyond-the-hardware-4-surprising-questions/#comment-330639 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:03:04 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110747#comment-330639 I must object to your answer to the first question.

Yes, recording data on the drive puts magnetic energy into it and e=mc^2, so m = e/c^2, it does gain mass. However, this happens in the factory when the initial format is laid down. The mass has already been added. While we might store 00000000 or 11111111, both are actually translated into bit patterns that an approximately equal number of 0s and 1s and which contain no appreciable runs of either. Thus the mass basically does not change with storing data.

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