https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-330612 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:53:26 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-330612 […] 2009, Backblaze has written extensively about the data storage servers we created and deployed which we call Backblaze Storage […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-329993 Tue, 23 May 2023 16:29:22 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-329993 […] consumer price point and be solvent. So, we didn’t just invest in on-premises resources: We built our own Storage Pods, the first evolution of the Backblaze Storage […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-329935 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:25:54 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-329935 […] out our very first viral moment, Petabytes on a Budget, and read more about our Storage Pods as they exist […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-329299 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:19:58 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-329299 […] little over 13 years ago, we wrote the Petabytes on a Budget blog post introducing Backblaze Storage Pods to the world and open sourcing the design. Since then, […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328712 Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:59:57 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328712 […] true Backblaze fan knows that we built our own Storage Pods. After all, our blog post about how to build cheap cloud storage is one of our most popular posts. What fans may not know is that our staff’s bilingual skills are […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328458 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:49:20 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328458 […] our first storage servers, we used hard drives as boot drives as they were inexpensive and served the purpose. This continued […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328395 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:47:03 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328395 […] weeks ago we published a post explaining how to build a Backblaze Storage Pod, the cloud storage hardware we use for our unlimited online backup service, and gave away the […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328394 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:46:20 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328394 […] thought ten people would care; instead, a million people read our “Storage Pod 1.0” blog post where we open sourced the Backblaze Storage Pod design and introduced the world’s most […]

]]> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328389 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:39:31 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/#comment-328389 […] that to being able to get a petabyte of storage for $117,000 and store it in a single rack. Of course, IBM researchers from the ’50s are clearly some of […]

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