I usually read the Blackblaze Hard Drive Data stats on the blogs on the website, since I find the information useful and informative when it comes to buying  hard drives for my personal NAS (network attached storage box) and I want to make sure the drives stay good and healthy for a long while (value aspect). I also look at https://shucks.top/ – great place to find cheaper per TB external drives that one can “shuck” to remove the drive out. While the aspect of removing drives from the casing can be a bit unnerving, it gets easier as one keeps on doing it. I actually got the idea from another Backblaze blog when the team over there had to resort to such measures when there was a hard drive shortage due to the floods in Thailand that one year, causing a surge in pricing since supplies where constrained.

Anyway, the new blog post I saw was from here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-network-stats/ – pretty good newbie guide for the masses to understand how Backblaze operates and what kind of connectivity they would like for their services.

P.S. – I am looking at probably changing up the simply layout of this website to start to segregate the blog posts. Might have more posts coming down the line and it is probably a good idea to segment the hobby of DJing and the professional side of IT related content on this website.