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I've seen Backblaze Hard Drive Stat articles in the past, and they were a lot longer and had a lot of tables breaking things down by manufacturer. This has one chart and a lot of links, but the newest one is from January. So what is being shared here that's new?

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This looks like a shift away from their old “editorialized” blog-style updates to a data-sharing-centric approach. I’m guessing that this takes less time for them and it allows various commentators and communities to create their own opinions based on the data.

I liked the tone and approach of their old blog posts but this is pretty cool too. It’s just good to see them continuing to share their data since it’s arguably relevant to a wide range of audiences.

This doesn't appear to be a shift, to me?

It's just the central landing page that Backblaze has had all of their HDD stats and blogposts linked from for years now[1].

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20190707132216/https://www.backb...

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