[mynameisnoone]

Boooo! No drive manufacturer names and model numbers. This is totally useless data for anyone so it's absolutely pointless to blog about.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-... contains the necessary data, but it seems old.

I don't know why they're buying COTS server gear because their whole premise was the economy-of-scale of having their own pods made. I don't understand why they don't go to Quanta or Foxxconn to build them whatever they need because Dell is really just a marketing front like CDW that relies heavily on third-party contract designers and major component manufacturing, and then only does final assembly itself.

[Sohcahtoa82]

> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-... contains the necessary data, but it seems old.

...is this a joke?

That's Q3 2023. Assuming the quarters are calendar quarters, Q4 2023 ended literally 3 days ago. They're not going to have a report out right away.

[itsgrimetime]

Maybe you misread it but that link is stats for Q3 2021 - but Q3 2023 is available here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...

[Sohcahtoa82]

Nope.

GP's link is indeed for Q3 2023.

When I made my comment, I copy/pasted the message which included a truncated link which ends up going to Q3 2021.