That’s right-SSDs have entered the data storage chat. We’ve historically reserved SSDs for Storage Pod (storage server) boot drives. That’s just a brief summary if you’re interested in the technical details (as well as the results of some rigorous testing), read on! The Path to Performance UpgradesĪs you might recall from many Drive Stats blog posts and webinars, Backblaze stores all customer data on HDDs, affectionately termed ‘spinning rust’ by some. Since writing data to an SSD is much faster than writing to HDDs, the net result is faster uploads. Once the writes to HDD are complete, we free up the space from the SSDs so it can be reused. Now, we write the incoming data to the same HDDs and also, simultaneously, to a pool of solid state drives (SSDs) we call a “shard stash,” waiting only for the HDD writes to make it to the filesystems’ in-memory caches and the SSD writes to complete before returning a response. Those operations had to be completed before returning a response to the client. Prior to this work, when a customer uploaded a file to Backblaze B2, the data was written to multiple hard disk drives (HDDs). The performance upgrades have been fully rolled out across Backblaze’s global data regions. Andreas Neufert, Vice President, Product Management, Alliances, Veeam The new performance improvements released by Backblaze for B2 Cloud Storage furthers our mission to provide radical resilience to our joint customers. Veeam® is dedicated to working alongside our partners to innovate and create a united front against cyber threats and attacks. Decreases congestion on network bandwidth.Frees up time for IT administrators to work on other projects.Specific benefits of the performance upgrades include: Small uploads of 1MB or less make up about 70% of all uploads to B2 Cloud Storage and are common for backup and archive workflows. The Results: Customers who rely on small file uploads (1MB or less) can expect to see 10–30% faster uploads on average based on our tests, all without any change to durability, availability, or pricing.Īll B2 Cloud Storage customers will benefit from these performance enhancements, especially those who use Backblaze B2 as a storage destination for data protection software. Today, I’m diving into all of the details of this performance improvement, how we did it, and what it means for you. And Backblaze just announced innovation on B2 Cloud Storage that delivers a lot more speed: most file uploads will now be up to 30% faster than AWS S3. You don’t always need the absolute fastest cloud storage-your performance requirements depend on your use case, business objectives, and security needs.

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