Comments on: Farming Hard Drives: How Backblaze Weathered the Thailand Drive Crisis

By: How to Choose the Right Enterprise NAS for Your Business

How to Choose the Right Enterprise NAS for Your Business — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:11:20 +0000

[…] 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 add more storage […]

By: Backblaze Is 16!

Backblaze Is 16! — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 21:32:11 +0000

[…] how the Backblaze community came together to farm hard drives during the Thailand Drive […]

By: Backblaze Rides the Nautilus Data Center Wave

Backblaze Rides the Nautilus Data Center Wave — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:46:50 +0000

[…] Pods, Drive Farming, Drive Stats, and even Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage are all innovations in their own way as they […]

By: 100 Petabytes of Cloud Data

100 Petabytes of Cloud Data — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:06:51 +0000

[…] 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 […]

By: 180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0

180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0 — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:04:06 +0000

[…] 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 Appendix A for a parts breakdown). The main component in the total cost will be the hard drives. The lingering effects from the Thailand drive crisis and consolidation in the drive industry have meant that even today hard drive prices are higher than they were when Pod 2.0 was introduced back in July of 2011, but here’s one way you can save a little on the price of hard drives. […]

By: Five Years and Four Billion Restored Files Later...

Five Years and Four Billion Restored Files Later... — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:40:23 +0000

[…] 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 price point of […]

By: Crowdsourcing Hard Drives

Crowdsourcing Hard Drives — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:09:44 +0000

[…] 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 […]

By: How Long Do Disk Drives Last?

How Long Do Disk Drives Last? — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:36:08 +0000

[…] 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 originally “external” […]

By: The Real Story Behind Drive Farming

The Real Story Behind Drive Farming — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:55:01 +0000

[…] 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, we […]