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Show HN: BackBlaze Hard Drive Data Failure Viewer (drives.fail)
10 points by BadJo0Jo0 1589 days ago
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Hello HN!

I'm a huge fan of the BackBlaze Drive Failure Reports[0] and use them exclusively when shopping for drives to use for my NAS. This project was an excuse to dive into F# and how it's used for Web Devlopment (SAFE Stack[1]) to provide me with a quick way to view the drive reports and search the drives on Amazon.

It's very much a MVP. I'd like to improve on it when I find more time. Ideally, the next steps would be for me to actually level up my front end game to have something much prettier to look at. As well as provide common functionality that you'd expect from something like this. (cough Column sorting cough)

Hope some of you find this useful or interesting.

Thanks!

[0] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html

[1] https://safe-stack.github.io/

It would be great if we could sort on each of the respective fields.

And some fields need to have a "<" or ">" factor -- for example, I don't want to see any results that have less than 100 drives in the fleet. At those small sample sizes, they're still just testing them and not really buying them for real work.

Thanks for the feedback, I can definitely add ranges to fields next!

I just updated the UI and now have a better filtering panel and also have column sorting.

Hmm. Looks to me like you're not doing a proper sort on drive capacity. 16TB should sort as larger than 160GB.

Whoops!

Haha thanks for catching that. Will be sorting that out now
Hmm. And now the filters box on the left hand side of the screen won't stay open for me. Every time I try to open it to select the check boxes for just the larger size drives, the box decides to close itself again.

Weird.

I get that sometimes too. I just refresh the page because I have no idea where that's coming from. It's definitely high on the list to resolve
And shortly after, I managed figure it out! Shouldn't be happening again
Nice :) BackBlaze reports have been my starting point for choosing HDD for a long time.