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Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by chiph »

tooltalk wrote: post #8

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

They've talked about this before -- despite orders like this, they're still not a big enough customer to be on the manufacturer's radar. So they're ordering from a middle-man.

Back during the hard-drive crisis after the tidal wave that disrupted production ... they were buying from anyone that had drives to sell, including people going into their local big-box store to source drives.

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by atYevP »

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?

Hey there! The business and consumer computer backup service have the same feature-set, so our business service would also not work with a NAS or Linux box. I'd recommend looking in to Backblaze B2. It'll be a bit more expensive as it's $0.005/GB but you'll have more control over your backups and lots of integrators make it easy.

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by gist »

chiph wrote: post #11
tooltalk wrote: post #8

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

They've talked about this before -- despite orders like this, they're still not a big enough customer to be on the manufacturer's radar. So they're ordering from a middle-man. Back during the hard-drive crisis after the tidal wave that disrupted production ... they were buying from anyone that had drives to sell, including people going into their local big-box store to source drives.

Yes I think the 'shucking' blog post was the one that caught my attention first.

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by buro9 »

votepaunchy wrote: post #10
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

Aha!

I thought B2 was like S3 and figured that Business Backup was what I needed.

TIL.

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by atYevP »

chr4004 wrote: post #6

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

Yev from Backblaze here -> Most of our purchasing is done through distributors. We'd love to buy direct at some point, but for now we have good manufacturer/distributor relationships! We're getting there though!

Re: Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives

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Post by ericfrederich »

I love the articles from Backblaze. I enjoy them publishing the failure rates of drives and anything else on the blog.

Two things missing from them in my opinion 1) a Linux client and 2) a second location

I guess I could get away without a Linux client if there was an unRAID plugin for B2.

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