Backblaze Pours Cold Water On Immersion Cooling For Most Disk Drive Setups
Blocks&Files, December 14th, 2022
Iceotope has demonstrated immersion cooling of disk drives and reckons it could enable fewer drive failures and lower total cost of ownership. A Backblaze technologist isn't convinced.
Backblaze, which provides cloud backup and general storage, has designed its own drive chassis called Pods, and has tens of thousands of disk drives in operation. Backblaze keeps detailed statistics about its drive population over their lifetime, cataloging failures and tracking their working life and costs.
We asked co-founder and CEO Gleb Budman what he thought about the Iceotope immersion cooling and he asked one of his technical staff to respond.