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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How Backblaze Uses Smart Stats to Make It Worth It

Backblaze has been collecting data on hard drives for 10 years. How does the company use it internally? "Almost from the beginning, we were tracking the smart stats" Data can be used to make predictions about a drive's durability and other characteristics.

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