Yev from Backblaze -> Where/what do you teach? We're unsure about releasing any more information at this time, but we're not opposed to it. What would it be used for?
Basically, lots of people use the "Iris" data set to learn either data visualization or machine learning based classification. The same could be true of the "Backblaze Hard Drive" data, but for survival analysis/time-to-event statistics courses.
(Just put a "this attribution (blah, blah) include text: backblaze is a service that provides unlimited backup (link) ... etc)
I can't see it harming you in any way -- your business is already wonderfully transparent -- if any mystery remains to be figured out by would-be competitors it would be in the data center/bandwidth area, not the price of hard disks. But it would be really interesting to play around with such data.