I'm always amazed by how open they are. Its great to see people like this succeed.<p>My one BB question is how many data centers do they have? I know they have great sharing tech to keep data online if a pod or two goes down, but how many physical locations do they run?
It's crazy to see how fast storage prices have fallen. Just a couple days ago I saw that you could get a WD White (Shucked easystore, pretty much a relabeled WD Red) 10TB for just $169. 1.69 cents/GB. And you can get 8TBs for $129 (1.61c/GB)
I always enjoy reading about Backblaze updates. New Pod designs, drive statistics, operations, etc... One thing I am particularly excited about is the future Pod designs with 2.5 inch drives. There may be enough miniaturization with magnetic drives to make this feasible, but I expect that the real transition will come with a Pod full of SSD. Any idea when that might happen? What is the expectation for that timeline? Do you have additional products or price/performance improvements planned in that transition? The SSD endurance experiment from 4 years ago indicates that, reliability wise, they are more than ready. I guess the only limitation now is price and maybe processing?<p><a href="https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead" rel="nofollow">https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...</a>
The only thing missing from the museum are the people behind Storage Pod. Other than that it's always really cool to see the evolution and history of the product
I love this kind of stuff.<p>I like the domain I program in but some of the problems in areas like this are straight up nerd sniping[1].<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/356/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/356/</a>