Re: [nlug] Whooiee! Backblaze's disk drive reliability report is out

Paul, You can go to the Backblaze.com site and read their blog. Backblaze seems to be a great low cost backup service. They use Linux in their servers, but there is not a Linux backup agent for them. ... Kind of a bummer. (I use Crashplan mainly because Backblaze doesn't do linux backups).

Re: [nlug] Whooiee! Backblaze's disk drive reliability report is out

I find it hard to believe that: 56,000 drives, all running at once that's a lot of HDD's for sure! tell us more. Paul Tabo On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > I was thinking about my fileserver, running FreeNAS. In that case, >

Re: [nlug] Whooiee! Backblaze's disk drive reliability report is out

I was thinking about my fileserver, running FreeNAS. In that case, SMART status is preinstalled and really easy to configure, in terms of sending alerts. If SMART status is a reliable measure of when a drive is about to fail, then it's foolish not to use that to get advance notice. Of course,

Re: [nlug] Whooiee! Backblaze's disk drive reliability report is out

This is a good feature IF you have software that is actively monitoring the SMART data of your drives, sending out alerts/emails AND someone is paying attention to those alerts/emails. I believe that most people are lazy and won't actually install software to monitor their drive health, so buying

Re: [nlug] Whooiee! Backblaze's disk drive reliability report is out

Hmmm... Sounds like me. Always dropping a few zeros. Dave On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 19:15 -0600, Curt Lundgren wrote: > Jack, I make that mistake all the time - '1 and 2G drives' - it's hard > to keep up. Really. > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Jack Coats wrote: >