Episode Details

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

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Featuring:

• Andy Klein – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
• 10 Stories From 10 Years of Drive Stats Data
• Hard Drive Life Expectancy
• The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review
• SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs?
• Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte
• A Behind the Scenes Look at Our US East Data Center
• Sean Has a New Friend. His Name Is Guido.
• The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - This week on The Changelog
(01:45) - Sponsor: DevCycle
(04:32) - Start the show!
(07:01) - 10 stories from 10 years
(14:39) - Software at the storage layer
(17:18) - S.M.A.R.T. predictive analysis
(20:49) - Digging into S.M.A.R.T. stats
(24:08) - Causes of High Fly Writes
(25:00) - Collecting and storing S.M.A.R.T. data
(29:10) - Sponsor: Sentry
(33:19)