Comments on: 180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0

By: Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives

Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:06:50 +0000

[…] Pod 4.0 uses 45 4TB hard drives for a storage capacity of 180TB, the same as Storage Pod 3.0. Why didn’t we use 5TB or even the 6TB drives in Storage Pod 4.0? In short, these higher capacity […]

By: Enterprise Drives: Fact or Fiction?

Enterprise Drives: Fact or Fiction? — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:19:51 +0000

[…] drives are in Backblaze Storage Pods, which do have a fair amount of vibration. In fact, the most recent design change to the Pod was to reduce […]

By: 100 Petabytes of Cloud Data

100 Petabytes of Cloud Data — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:49:19 +0000

[…] of this data is stored on Backblaze’s custom built and open-sourced Storage Pods, filled with approximately 30,000 hard drives (many of which were “farmed” and from […]

By: Alas, Poor Stephen Is Dead. Or, What it Takes to be a Backblaze Hard Drive

Alas, Poor Stephen Is Dead. Or, What it Takes to be a Backblaze Hard Drive — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:33:48 +0000

[…] stores over 70 petabytes of data for our customers. That data currently resides on 561 Backblaze Storage Pods containing 25,245 spinning hard drives. Each month we add another 15-20 Storage Pods with each Pod […]

By: Computers Need Electricity

Computers Need Electricity — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:16:19 +0000

[…] six cabinets are made up of 54 Backblaze Storage Pods containing a total of 2,430 hard drives and approximately 9.7PB of storage, which is approximately […]

By: Backblaze Stores 75 Petabytes of Data: One Fourth as Much as Facebook

Backblaze Stores 75 Petabytes of Data: One Fourth as Much as Facebook — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:59:35 +0000

[…] You guys are truly storing an incredible amount of data. ;-) Of course, all of this data is stored in our custom, open-sourced, Backblaze Storage Pods. […]

By: Is the NSA Using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Surveillance Data? Here’s What We Know...

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:02:44 +0000

[…] of these are important and something the Backblaze Storage Pods have been optimized for, but the NSA may benefit most from one unusual aspect of our systems: open […]

By: Meet Brian Beach: TiVo VP of R&D Joins as Backblaze Distinguished Engineer

Meet Brian Beach: TiVo VP of R&D Joins as Backblaze Distinguished Engineer — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:34:28 +0000

[…] just $5/month, Backblaze had to build an entire cloud storage system, including server hardware (Storage Pods) and highly automated and scalable cloud storage software. Brian Beach will work to further build […]

By: Nirvanix Cloud Storage Shuts Down: Alternatives, Options, and Prices

Nirvanix Cloud Storage Shuts Down: Alternatives, Options, and Prices — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:20:50 +0000

[…] Finally, using an open source solution, such as a Backblaze Storage Pod design, costs approximately $60 per terabyte. Thus, building a petabyte of Backblaze Storage Pod-based storage costs just $56,000. […]