Comments on: The Life and Times of a Backblaze Hard Drive https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Fri, 26 Nov 2021 14:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Tim Clevenger https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-328653 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 14:00:30 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-328653 In reply to 9 Iron.

Erasure coding works by sharding data across disks in multiple servers, meaning rebuilds involve requesting the other shards over the network. That’s going to be far slower than reading from locally attached disks.

]]> By: 9 Iron https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-328651 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:45:26 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-328651 What sort of arrays do you have that take days to rebuild? I’ve worked with some massive RAID arrays in which a rebuild completes in a few hours.

]]> By: Craig https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-326786 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:01:46 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-326786 This needs to become the next Pixar film! :)

]]> By: Judith Doreen Anderson Jones https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-326780 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:34:33 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-326780 What a delightful story! Loved it!!

]]> By: DReffects https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-326822 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:58:46 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-326822 Aaaaaaaawwwwww

]]> By: theKiwi https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-326743 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:40:52 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-326743 Thanks – that was a great read, and made me realise that I need to treat my hard drives much better than I do. From now on they will all be named.

]]> By: eyelabs https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-326732 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:40:15 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-326732 Entertaining read, thanks for writing!

]]> By: Shane King https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-326715 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:50:08 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-326715 Okay Andy you’re in the wrong game – thought of writing childrens books for a living? Great article

]]> By: William L https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/#comment-326713 Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:41:05 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=93105#comment-326713 I wasn’t ready for this level of emotional commitment to my Backblaze storage. Thank you for your service, hard drives!

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