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The Latest BackBlaze Drive Stats Report Out and One Maker's Numbers are Troubling

May 13, 2025

The latest BackBlaze drive stats report was released today. The quarterly reports offer invaluable insight into real-world, hard-use hard drive statistics.

The Latest BackBlaze Drive Stats Report Out and One Maker's Numbers are Troubling

LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances

raindog308

Sep 10, 2022

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And you thought Silk Road was bad.This place is a cess pool of consciousness expanders, horizon growers, and barely legal performance-enhancing skill boosters.

LowEndBox BUSTED for Dealing in Mind Expanding Substances

The Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2022 Q2 Are Here!

raindog308

Aug 02, 2022

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Backblaze is a cloud storage/backup company that has done some interesting things with its storage. They innovated the Backblaze Storage Pod: "Offering both an unlimited online backup service and the...

The Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2022 Q2 Are Here!

BackBlaze (BLZE) to be Acquired. You Heard it Here First.

raindog308

Jul 04, 2022

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When Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) went public last November, I thought it might be an interesting play, but I didn't like the valuation or the earnings. And I still don't. And this concerns me because I'm...

BackBlaze (BLZE) to be Acquired. You Heard it Here First.

BackBlaze B2 with rclone for Effortless Cheap Cloud Backups!

raindog308

Jun 18, 2022

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I've been a fan of BackBlaze's B2 cloud storage service for a long time. The pricing is great and very straightforward: $.005 per GB per month, and $.01 per GB to download. I use B2 for my cloud back...

B2 or C2? That is the Question. That is the Quest.

raindog308

Feb 20, 2022

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For some time, I've been using BackBlaze B2 as my primary (though not exclusive) cloud backup solution. I would love to use TarSnap for everything, but it's too expensive, though I do keep my top-tie...

B2 or C2? That is the Question. That is the Quest.

BackBlaze Goes Public - Are You Buying BLZE?

raindog308

Nov 12, 2021

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Cloud service provider BackBlaze went public on Thursday on NASDAQ (BLZE), selling 6.25 million shares for $100 million. They claim to have 500,000 customers. After a day of trading, the stock closed...

BackBlaze Goes Public - Are You Buying BLZE?

Backing Up Your VPS With b2 and rclone

raindog308

Jan 27, 2021

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b2 is cloud storage from Backblaze. Like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Storage, it provides an API for storing files in the cloud and does so at a substantially cheaper price than its co...