Show HN: BackBlaze Hard Drive Data Failure Viewer

  • Hello HN!

    I'm a huge fan of the BackBlaze Drive Failure Reports[0] and use them exclusively when shopping for drives to use for my NAS. This project was an excuse to dive into F# and how it's used for Web Devlopment (SAFE Stack[1]) to provide me with a quick way to view the drive reports and search the drives on Amazon.

    It's very much a MVP. I'd like to improve on it when I find more time. Ideally, the next steps would be for me to actually level up my front end game to have something much prettier to look at. As well as provide common functionality that you'd expect from something like this. (cough Column sorting cough)

    Hope some of you find this useful or interesting.

    Thanks!

    [0] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html

    [1] https://safe-stack.github.io/

  • It would be great if we could sort on each of the respective fields.

    And some fields need to have a "<" or ">" factor -- for example, I don't want to see any results that have less than 100 drives in the fleet. At those small sample sizes, they're still just testing them and not really buying them for real work.

  • Nice :) BackBlaze reports have been my starting point for choosing HDD for a long time.