Technologies that help drive down costs help us all. Gleb Budman As you know, Backblaze believes strongly in driving down the cost of storage, and that lower-cost storage enables new use cases and businesses. However, object storage is generally not as fast as block storage.Įl Reg Is there a real need (that Backblaze sees) for a storage technology that is faster than tape and slower than disk, but nearer tape cost than disk cost? If there is then would Pelican meet that need? Object storage also supports having metadata for objects. In general object storage is designed for scale in a way that file and block storage systems are not (we currently store billions of objects and are on-track to have an exabyte of storage this year). Our cloud backup service uses that underlying our B2 cloud service exposes that via APIs. Gleb Budman Yes, the Backblaze cloud storage is an object store. Does Backblaze use object storage? What are the arguments for and against the storage technology you use? write once, rewrite never, read almost never) that's probably a reasonable choice.Įl Reg Pelican is using object storage (talks of storing blobs and using Gets and Puts). The SMR disks are priced lower, so that's compelling, and if the use cases are literally replacing tape (i.e. The Linux kernel is starting to add workarounds for some of this with smart filesystem bits, but they're still very early on. I'm sure Microsoft has found that out in their evaluations. Gleb Budman SMRs have really bad rewrite performance, and would require some pretty major software/hardware tweaks to use effectively. What are your views on using shingled and non-shingled disks? I doubt most cloud-scale companies would, but enterprise IT folks may.Įl Reg Pelican is evaluating shingled and non-shingled disks.
Having said that, some users may have use cases to fit this pattern.
However, between users wanting to access certain files and the system doing housekeeping, it hasn't made sense.įor our cloud storage service, B2, we also wouldn't want to limit the fundamental access to data since it's a real-time service.
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