Backblaze Partners with StorageReview to Make Record 314 Trillion Digits of Pi Widely Available

Backblaze Partners with StorageReview to Make Record 314 Trillion Digits of Pi Widely Available

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Backblaze Hosts 314 Trillion Digits of Pi Online

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion digits of Pi publicly accessible. The digits were calculated by StorageReview in December 2025 after months of heavy computation designed to stress modern hardware. The dataset now hosted in the cloud weighs in at over 130TB, while the full working dataset used during the calculation reac…

After the Pi Record: Serving a 130 TB Dataset with Backblaze B2

Earlier this year, we set a new record by computing 314 trillion digits of Pi. The calculation ran for months on a single Dell PowerEdge R7725, pushing modern CPU and storage infrastructure to the limit while demonstrating just how far enterprise hardware has come. When the run finally finished, however, the record itself turned out to be only part of the story. The computation produced a massive dataset comprising 628 files, each roughly 206 GB…