What Backblaze’s Q2 2026 drive stats say about buying big hard drives
The quarter in numbers Backblaze published its Q2 2026 Drive Stats report on September 29, and the headline number moved the wrong way. The quarterly annualized failure rate hit 1.73%, up from 1.24% in Q1 and the highest the report has shown in a while. The lifetime figure barely budged, ticking up to 1.41% across […]
Storage Mover can now migrate SMB shares to Azure Files without agents
Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless migration from on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files, in public preview. Until now, moving file shares into Azure with Storage Mover meant deploying and managing migration agents on VMs near the source data. The agentless path removes that step entirely: the service reads the SMB share over the […]