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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats

Since 2013, Backblaze has published statistics and insights based on the hard drives in our data center. You'll find links to those reports below. We also publish the data underlying these reports, so that anyone can reproduce them. You'll find an overview of this data and the download links further down this page.


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New Optical Storage Breakthrough Could Revitalize CDs With Ultra-High Density

Scientists from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new approach to optical memory storage, potentially revitalizing CDs with high-density data storage capabilities. The research, published in Physical Review Research, addresses limitations in traditional optical storage where data density is restricted by the diffraction limit of light—the inability to store bits smaller than a laser’s wavelength.The breakthrough involves embedding rare-earth element atoms, like those in magnesium […]
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