<story><title>Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idlewords</author><text>As someone who runs a tiny archiving operation (about 70 hard drives) I find these stats invaluable and am so grateful to you for publishing them!  You make it a lot easier to navigate an expensive and intimidating world of hardware options.</text></comment>
<story><title>Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>How have they got 2k boot drives for 100k data drives? Are these special motherboards with 50 (!) SATA connectors on them? Or is it many machines netbooting and share-mounting root from a handful of control nodes? I get that it&amp;#x27;s backup, so most of the data is at rest most of the time, but that still seems like a really high ratio of network ports to disk drives.&lt;p&gt;Either way, interesting that the boot drives are actual drives and not SD card pairs or something, like how vSANs are often set up.</text></comment>