When Backblaze first filed to go public, TechCrunch found it a compelling company. With a central core of content to help power customer acquisition and a huge swath of customers, it was an ...

Backblaze’s quarterly updates on annualized failure rates (AFRs) for its arsenal of hard disk drives (HDDs) have provided unique insight into long-term storage use for over 10 years. Today, the backup ...

Bottom line: In addition to the quarterly reports on HDD failure rates published by Backblaze, the cloud backup and storage company has now added SSD boot drives to its data starting with Q1 2021. As ...

Backblaze today announced that its B2 Cloud Storage service is now API-compatible with Amazon’s S3 storage service. Backblaze started as an affordable cloud backup service, but over the last few years ...

Backblaze has released its quarterly details on hard drive reliability, including new information on its initial deployment of 8TB hard drives. While SSDs have made marked inroads into the hard drive ...

Over 317,000 drives analyzed; four models recorded zero failures; high-capacity drives (20TB+) outperform average. Trusted by IT leaders and storage professionals since 2013, this latest installment ...

Four models achieve zero failures across 328,000+ drives; new failure analysis on outliers prompts dive into failure definitions SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Backblaze, Inc. (BLZE), the ...

Nearly every hard drive manufacturer improved in reliability but one manufacturer still leads the pack, according to the latest hard drive survey from BackBlaze. The hard drives in question power ...

It's a technical marvel that mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) don't give up the ghost way more often than they do. Some models are more prone to premature failure than others, of course, but overall ...

The latest quarterly report from Backblaze on hard drive reliability reveals a rise in failures among certain drives. Backblaze is a pure storage provider; cloud storage is all they do, and they dig ...

SAN MATEO, Calif., September 16, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud storage innovator providing a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers, today announced an ...

You know those backup drives will fail someday — but online backup services won't. Every minute of every day, your work can be preserved offsite — and AppleInsider will show you how to start. You can ...