How Backblaze Scales Our Storage Cloud
Increasing storage density is a fancy way of saying we are replacing one drive with another drive of a larger capacity; for example replacing a 4TB drive with a 16TB drive—same space, four times the storage. You’ve probably copied or cloned a drive or two over the years, so you understand the general process. Now imagine having 270,000 drives that over the next several years will need to be replaced, or migrated as is often the term used. That’s a lot of work. And when you finish—well actually y...
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