In this episode, Martin and Chris talk to Andy Klein from Backblaze. Since 2014, Backblaze has been collecting and publishing hard drive reliability information for their storage pods. The pods are custom-built and used to hold backup data from customers and to support the B2 cloud storage offering. Rather than buy an expensive storage platform or use the public cloud, Backblaze initially decided to build their own solution at a fraction of the cost of other options. Once at scale, it seemed logical to use the platform for B2. Over the years, the Backblaze team …
