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Backblaze storage pod6/22/2023 ![]() Vault 1084 is composed of 20 Supermicro servers and Vault 1085 is composed of 20 Storage Pods. The comparison of how much data each vault uploaded each day is shown below. In general, the more performant the vault, the more data it can upload each day. Each vault has the same opportunity to load data, but this will vary depending on the performance of the vault to process the requests received. When a Backblaze Vault enters production, 60 tomes of storage come online at the same time joining thousands of other tomes ready to receive data. ![]() The 2 vaults ran the same software and we would track each vault’s performance throughout. We built a vault of 20 Supermicro servers and placed it into production, and at the same time we placed a standard Storage Pod vault into production. ![]() Here we would observe the server’s performance and test its compatibility with our operational architecture. The process progressed and one server, a 60-drive Supermicro server, was selected to move on to the next stage, production performance testing. The testing was done over a period of about a year using the criteria noted earlier. We then proceeded to test several different storage servers from the list and elsewhere. Also in that post, we compiled a list of storage servers on the market at the time which were similar to our Storage Pod design. In that post we mused about the build/buy decision and stated the criteria we needed to consider if we were going to buy storage servers from someone else: cost, ease of maintenance, the use of commodity parts, ability to scale production, and so on. In September of 2019, we wrote a blog post to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of open sourcing our Storage Pod design. That changed about 6 months ago and we haven’t built or deployed a Storage Pod since that time. We had started using Dell servers in our Amsterdam data center, although we were still building and deploying the version 6.X storage pods in our US data centers. I suppose we could have written blog posts about those improvements, a Storage Pod 6.X post or 2 or 3, but somehow that felt a bit hollow.Ībout 18 months ago, we talked about The Next Backblaze Storage Pod. ![]() We’ve added more memory, upgraded the CPU, and of course deployed larger disks. Yes, we have improved that system since then, several times. It has been over 6 years since we released Storage Pod 6.0. The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity We wholeheartedly recommend this service to anyone who wishes to have data security without the constant hassles associated with traditional backup approaches.This article was written on Octoby Andy Klein, principal storage cloud evangelist, Backblaze Inc. The cost is absolutely minimal, versus the time and interruption required for manual back, as well as the risk exposure from procrastination. Although we have yet to do a recovery, we checked that we could access our data, and it was indeed readily available. Downloading and installing the small utility onto the laptops was simple, and it is truly unobtrusive, operating in the background with no perceivable performance penalty. It took time to back these machines up, but more importantly, it didn't get done as often as it should, which was an invitation for disaster. We had tried other solutions in the past, but nothing was satisfactory. Although our core company backup activities are looked after internally by our IT staff, management laptops were a loose end that required manual intervention. We thought we'd share our perspective as happy customers of Backblaze's online backup service.
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