Backblaze Is Faster than the Sound of Panic After a Hard Drive Failure

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Yes, that’s how blazing fast Backblaze is at backing up your data! At least according to @joerocklin who gets a Backblaze bike jersey for finishing: “Backblaze is faster than…”

In addition to Joe’s answer, there were hundreds of other suggestions…many of which made us laugh out loud. Thank to everyone who submitted! For your perusing pleasure, below are all the ideas that came in by the time we finished looking.

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Pavlin Panayotov Backblaze is faster than a Neutrino!
Julie Stanley Backblaze is faster than a shooting star on a mission!
Siebe Warmoeskerken Backblaze is faster than a SSD on steroids.
Steve Staskiewicz Backblaze is faster than Chuck Norris.
Chris Miller Backblaze is faster than it used to be. Much faster.
Dana Buswell Backblaze is faster than Kim Kardashian filing for divorce.
Rhain Louis Backblaze is faster than Lance without EPO!
Richard Lawson Backblaze is faster than my old online backup company!
Erwin Latscher Backblaze is faster than no backup…
John Griffin Backblaze is faster than rewriting a single document.
Jim Soriano Backblaze is faster than trying to find the file in my Dropbox.
Courtney Ely Backblaze is faster than Usain Bolt on the 100m sprint.
Alan Em Backblaze is faster than… um… something really fast…
Niben Singh Blackblaze is faster than Jimmy John’s delivery!
Gorka Ludlow Backblaze is faster than #backupmonday. By Monday it already has me backed up.
James Gockel Backblaze is faster than a dog on a go-kart track.
James Gockel Backblaze is faster than the speed of lint.
James Gockel Backblaze is faster than printing out hard copies of all the Binary, to create ‘a backup’.
Sebastian Vazquez Backblaze is faster than restoring from CDs.
Gavin Chapman Backblaze is faster than having to go out and recreate all the family photos all over again.
Joey Dawson Backblaze is faster than Usain Bolt.
Thomas Valk Backblaze is faster than you realize you accidentally deleted that file you were looking for.
Michael Tenney Backblaze is faster than a juiced up cyclist!
Matthew Thompson Backblaze is faster than a neutrino at the Gran Sasso lab.
Shawn Beattie Backblaze is faster than a Romulan warship.
Olav Granas Gjerde Backblaze is faster than a time machine.
Justin Gehring Backblaze is faster than Chuck Norris.
John Montgomery Backblaze is faster than Mark Cavendish on the Champs-lyses in July.
Jonathan Anonuevo Backblaze is faster than the action potential of a neurotransmitter! =)
Justin Gehring Backblaze is faster than your external USB drive.
Shawn Beattie Backblaze is faster than a Ferrari loaded with DVD-ROMs.
Justin Gehring Backblaze is faster than fast.
Bryan Mumme Backblaze is faster than Mark Cavendish sprinting towards the finish line.
Shawn Beattie Backblaze is faster than Speedy Gonzalez AND the Road Runner.
Justin Gehring Backblaze is faster than the growth of the US National Debt.
Barry Wood Backblaze is faster than the Tour de France peloton coming down from the Alps with a tailwind.
Katia Bloom Backblaze is faster than a hunting cheetah.
Leya Leydiker Backblaze is faster than you can say “OH $H!T!! I lost my data.”
Ashley Thalman Backblaze is faster than Your mom.
Bryan Mumme Backblaze is faster than “greased lightning.”
Jeff Jones Backblaze is faster than a staple gun…an elf with a staple gun…a north pole Rudolf-riding elf with staple gun putting up Grizwold’s lights.
Kathy McDowell Backblaze is faster than a one armed paper hanger!
Ashley N John Harte Backblaze is faster than an iron mountain truck hauling your tape backups from the closest underground bunker.
Sergey Kleimenichev Backblaze is faster than Chuck Norris’ kick.
Sergey Kleimenichev Backblaze is faster than your thoughts to try it.
Sergey Kleimenichev Backblaze is faster than a Universe expansion.
@azharc @backblaze Backblaze is faster than me on my bike, but only during winters.
@atypicalbnc @backblaze is faster than the Waco Kid. Well raise my rent!
@atypicalbnc @backblaze is faster than Dwight Schrute…which is somewhere between a snake and a mongoose. And a panther.
@GotKevin Backblaze is faster than a rocket goin… OMG BEES! (cc: @backblaze)
@austinehrhart @Backblaze is faster than…particles in the Hadron Collider!
@joerocklin Backblaze is faster than the sound of panic after a hard drive failure. @backblaze
@haentz @Backblaze is faster than me riding my bike down the trails! (That might change with an awesome Backblaze jersey, though.)
@dankohn1 Backblaze is faster than an (otherwise data-destroying) tornado.
@AndyM84 @backblaze Backblaze is faster than… a Kenyan. So fast, it’ll beat a Kenyan in a race and have them deported back to Kenya.
@Hoffmann @backblaze Backblaze is faster storing my data than I’m losing it.
@r_pluta @backblaze is faster than a spilt margarita. #zzzztt #zap
@permagnus Backblaze is faster than me @backblaze #backblaze
@blinkingeye @backblaze Backblaze is faster than a Quantum Slipstream Drive.
@lvcosgrove @backblaze Backblaze is faster than a defection from Mozy.
@scardus @backblaze is faster than building a time machine to rescue my data.
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About Gleb Budman

Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our board of directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies.