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bayouborne 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

"As of the end of 2025, Backblaze was monitoring 341,664 drives used to store data."

Three hundred thousand drives. That figure seems insane. Google and AWS must have truly staggering amounts.

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