metadaddy

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by metadaddy 1y ago
Hi - Pat from Backblaze here - we got the same heads up from a couple of folks, and corrected the graph already. Thanks for noticing!
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by metadaddy 2y ago
I submitted some fixes to make it work in Backblaze B2: https://github.com/goshops-com/clipshare/pull/1
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by metadaddy 2y ago
Funnily enough, I stumbled on the hardwired name bug. I submitted a fix: https://github.com/goshops-com/clipshare/pull/1
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by metadaddy 3y ago
No need to give your file an obscure name, or use a public bucket. You can use a private bucket and create a presigned URL with an expiration of up to one week.
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by metadaddy 3y ago
> Do you put official, expensive Dell drives in there Absolutely not! The Dell servers have a similar mix of drives as we use in the Backblaze pods and SMC servers. We added a 'datacenter' field to the Drive Stats data in Q3 20
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by metadaddy 3y ago
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. We use Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 rack servers in our Amsterdam data center.
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by metadaddy 3y ago
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Yep - we explained it all here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-storage-pod-story-innovat...
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by metadaddy 3y ago
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. > I heard that Backblaze occasionally has weird gotchas that surprise people, like auto-deleting files from your backups that you delete locally, so I just feel cautious. We
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by metadaddy 3y ago
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Backblaze B2 does include deletion prevention (object lock) and lifecycle management to automatically hide (soft delete) or (hard) delete objects according to a schedule.
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by metadaddy 3y ago
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Pulling the egress costs from the hyperscalers' storage pricing pages: * Amazon S3 ranges from $50-$90/TB depending on monthly volume. * Google Cloud Storage ranges f
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by metadaddy 3y ago
Every quarter, Backblaze publishes its Drive Stats report, but where does that data come from? In this blog post, David Winings, a senior infrastructure software engineer at Backblaze, explains how the company collects SMART attributes from
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Drive Stats Data Deep Dive: The Architecture(backblaze.com)
2 points by metadaddy 3y ago|1 comments
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Python GIL vs. nogil: Boost I/O Performance 10x With One Line Change(backblaze.com)
30 points by metadaddy 3y ago|0 comments
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by metadaddy 16y ago
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