--- title: Backblaze starts tracking 'hot drives' as planet temp rises description: Backblaze introduces temperature tracking for drives and reports a small number of devices exceeding the maximum recommended temperature. Engineers are... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/backblaze-starts-tracking-hot-drives-as-planet-temp-rises-2imuhepie twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Backblaze starts tracking 'hot drives' as planet temp rises | daily.dev og:description: Backblaze introduces temperature tracking for drives and reports a small number of devices exceeding the maximum recommended temperature. Engineers are... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/backblaze-starts-tracking-hot-drives-as-planet-temp-rises-2imuhepie og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2iMuhePIE.png og:image:alt: Backblaze starts tracking 'hot drives' as planet temp rises og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Backblaze starts tracking 'hot drives' as planet temp rises **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Backblaze introduces temperature tracking for drives and reports a small number of devices exceeding the maximum recommended temperature. Engineers are investigating the root causes and creating a separate cohort of drives called Hot Drives to compare failure rates. Backblaze also shares data on datacenter locations and drive failure rates for Q3. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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