Backblaze Publishes Q1 2026 Drive Stats: Reliability Improves as 92% of New Deployments Exceed 20TB
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AI workloads push enterprises toward high-capacity storage; fleet AFR improves to 1.24% year-over-year SAN MATEO, Calif. — Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today published its Q1 2026 Drive Stats report. In this new report, Backblaze notes that 92% of newly deployed hard drives now exceed 20TB to […]
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Jul 9, 2026