Update: This analysis was featured on Backblaze’s Blog and I got to meet the executive staff at Backblaze to discuss my findings; The team and culture there is amazing! It is now common practice for end-customers to share telemetry (“call home”) data with their vendors. My analysis below shares some insights about your business that […]
Category: Hard Drives
This post briefly explains how I took the raw SMART data (drive health data) from Backblaze and turned it into insights on my previous post. Backblaze posts all of its SMART data on the following page: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html I downloaded the zip files and imported the data into MySQL. After importing the data, I used the […]
