Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by _jcwu » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 9:40 AM UTC

Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
backblaze.com

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by bacoboy » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:07 PM UTC

I guess all the crashplan personal users are jumping over there en-masse. Good for business...

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Post by kyriakos » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:11 PM UTC

bacoboy wrote: post #2

I guess all the crashplan personal users are jumping over there en-masse. Good for business...

something happened to crashplan?

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by cosmie » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:12 PM UTC

kyriakos wrote: post #3

bacoboy wrote: post #2

I guess all the crashplan personal users are jumping over there en-masse. Good for business...

something happened to crashplan?

They're shutting down their consumer service to focus on the B2B market.

https://blog.eogn.com/2017/08/22/crashplan-is-shutting-down-...

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by atYevP » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:34 PM UTC

bacoboy wrote: post #2

I guess all the crashplan personal users are jumping over there en-masse. Good for business...

Yev from Backblaze here -> An influx of Computer Backup customers has certainly played a factor, but also Backblaze B2 is growing quickly!

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by chr4004 » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:40 PM UTC

Curious where one would buy those, directly from the manufacturer?

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by buro9 » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:41 PM UTC

@atYevP how much does the Backblaze business plan cost?

Or rather, if I have 10TB on a NAS and a Linux machine, what would it cost to back that up to Backblaze as a consumer given that you don't support this and I'd need to purchase the business thing?

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by tooltalk » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

wonder if Backblaze is buying directly from HDD manufacturers or wholesalers and how much volume discount?

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by no1youknowz » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:43 PM UTC

atYevP wrote: post #5

bacoboy wrote: post #2

I guess all the crashplan personal users are jumping over there en-masse. Good for business...

Yev from Backblaze here -> An influx of Computer Backup customers has certainly played a factor, but also Backblaze B2 is growing quickly!

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Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by votepaunchy » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 2:44 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #7

@atYevP how much does the Backblaze business plan cost? Or rather, if I have 10TB on a NAS and a Linux machine, what would it cost to back that up to Backblaze as a consumer given that you don't support this and I'd need to purchase the business thing?

$50/month at $0.005/GB/month.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html