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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)

Apr 26, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Usage Based Pricing in DevCycle

3min

The Importance of Storytelling at Backblades

2min

10 Stories From 10 Years of Drive Stas Data

2min

How Backblaze Uses Smart Stats to Make It Worth It

6min

How to Clone a Drive

3min

Smart CTL: A Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology

4min

How to Analyze Smart Stats for Failure

3min

How to Collect and Store Smart Data

5min

10.

The Century Acquisition of Code Curve

2min

11.

Code Curve: A Powerful Tool for Code Coverage

4min

12.

How to Calculate Failure Rates for Your Drives

2min

13.

How to Operate a New Drive in Service

2min

14.

How to Trade Off Failure Rates for Dollars

2min

15.

How to Choose the Right Drives for Your Data Center

3min

16.

The History of the Storage Pod

2min

17.

The Protocase Storage System

5min

18.

How to Design a High Density Storage Array

5min

19.

How to Build a Server Rack

3min

20.

The Importance of API Governance for Organizations

2min

21.

API Governance: How It Plays Out in Organizations

2min

22.

How to Buy Hard Drives

5min

23.

The Importance of Good Relationships With Manufacturers

2min

24.

How to Determine 8 Terabyte, 12 Terabit, and 16 Teratbyte Drives

2min

25.

The Importance of Scalability in Data Recovery

3min

26.

How to Buy a Hard Drive

1min

27.

How to Leverage Data to Help Consumers Buy Drives

5min

28.

How to Buy Hard Drives as a Consumer

5min

29.

SSDs: A New Player to Drive Stats

2min

30.

The Cost of SSDs

3min

31.

How to Buy and Manage Hard Drives

3min

32.

The Relationship Between Seagate and Western Digital

3min

33.

The Importance of Hard Drives

2min

34.

How to Buy and Swap Out Hard Drives to Operate at Scale

2min

This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.

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