Backblaze Talks Drive Stats at DefCon 33
Session titled: Tracking 300,000+ Drives: What We鈥檝e Learned After 13 Years
Backblaze manages over four exabytes of data stored on over 300,000 hard drives in data centers across the world. This session, the Backblaze Drive Stats Team will cover how we collect and share the Drive Stats dataset and reports, including how we recently improved data processing and failure validations with Iceberg, Snowflake, and Trino, and a live demo of the same. The session will also touch on updated AFR trends by drive model and size, SSD tracking challenges, and share how drive insights have contributed to performance improvements in data centers.
鈥淒rive Stats is a content franchise that has built an incredible community of technical leaders who are passionate about data storage and use,鈥� said Patrick Thomas, Backblaze Vice President of Marketing. 鈥淪haring our primary source data and our process with the DefCon community is an incredible opportunity to spark new ideas and experiments, while supporting the hard drive manufacturers who quietly power the protection and use of data across the planet."
DefCon 2025 is being held August 7鈥�10 at the
About Backblaze
Backblaze is the cloud storage innovator delivering a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers. We offer high-performance, secure cloud object storage that customers use to develop applications, manage media, secure backups, build AI workflows, protect from ransomware, and more. Backblaze helps businesses break free from the walled gardens that traditional providers lock customers into, enabling them to use their data in open cloud workflows with the providers they prefer at a fraction of the cost. Headquartered in
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