instant solution—and you’re more vulnerable to fluctuations in the supply chain. (Remember the Thailand Drive Crisis?) While you want to plan for future storage needs, cloud storage lets you...
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how the Backblaze community came together to farm hard drives during the Thailand Drive
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Pods, Drive Farming, Drive Stats, and even Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage are all innovations in their own way as they
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open-sourced Storage Pods, filled with approximately 30,000 hard drives (many of which were “farmed” and from which we analyzed “which hard drive you should buy“), and all to
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Costs Less: For Storage Pod 2.0, the price for the components without drives was $1,984.00. For Pod 3.0, the price is $1,942.59, or $37.41 less—or about a 1.9% decrease in the cost (see Append...
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along the way: how to design a cost efficient Storage Pod, almost getting acquired, and the flooding in Thailand. Through all those trials, not only have we never raised prices from our original...
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drive farming was pretty darn successful. Using a combination of crowdsourced drive farmers and experienced Backblaze employees, we’ve gathered over 300 drives with more on the
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nearly impossible to find internal hard drives for sale at reasonable prices, Backblaze started to farm hard drives. Thus, approximately six petabytes of the drives in this analysis were origina...
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but we have a few things that we keep close to the chest. Even though we told the story behind our drive farming a few months ago, there were some things we didn’t tell you. We’re sorry. So,...
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