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Backblaze Talks Drive Stats at DefCon 33

Session titled: Tracking 300,000+ Drives: What We’ve Learned After 13 Years

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud storage innovator providing a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers, today announced that Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist, and Stephanie Doyle, Writer and Content Strategist, will be speaking at DefCon 33, presenting a talk called, “Tracking 300k+ Drives: What We’ve Learned After 13 Years.”

Backblaze manages over four exabytes of data stored on over 300,000 hard drives in data centers across the world. This session, the Backblaze Drive Stats Team will cover how we collect and share the Drive Stats dataset and reports, including how we recently improved data processing and failure validations with Iceberg, Snowflake, and Trino, and a live demo of the same. The session will also touch on updated AFR trends by drive model and size, SSD tracking challenges, and share how drive insights have contributed to performance improvements in data centers.

“Drive Stats is a content franchise that has built an incredible community of technical leaders who are passionate about data storage and use,” said Patrick Thomas, Backblaze Vice President of Marketing. “Sharing our primary source data and our process with the DefCon community is an incredible opportunity to spark new ideas and experiments, while supporting the hard drive manufacturers who quietly power the protection and use of data across the planet."

DefCon 2025 is being held August 7–10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall. The session is being presented twice at the Data Duplication Village located in LVCC-L2-W225 on August 8, at 1:00 p.m., and August 9, at 1:00 p.m. For more information, please visit: https://dcddv.org/dc-33-talks-schedule.

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the cloud storage innovator delivering a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers. We offer high-performance, secure cloud object storage that customers use to develop applications, manage media, secure backups, build AI workflows, protect from ransomware, and more. Backblaze helps businesses break free from the walled gardens that traditional providers lock customers into, enabling them to use their data in open cloud workflows with the providers they prefer at a fraction of the cost. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) was founded in 2007 and serves over 500,000 customers in 175 countries around the world. For more information, please go to www.backblaze.com.

Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist, and Stephanie Doyle, Writer and Content Strategist, will be speaking at DefCon 33, presenting a talk called, “Tracking 300k+ Drives: What We’ve Learned After 13 Years.”

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