An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum

I&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x2F;GB. And you can get 8TBs for $129 (1.61c&#x2F;GB)

I hope it has a pile of the dead 3gb seagates. Perhaps in an interactive exhibit where there are some implements of destruction.

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&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;techreport.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;27909&#x2F;the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techreport.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;27909&#x2F;the-ssd-endurance-experi...</a>

The only thing missing from the museum are the people behind Storage Pod. Other than that it&#x27;s always really cool to see the evolution and history of the product

It&#x27;s always fun to read stuff from the backblaze guys. The stuff they do is just neat.

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;356&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;356&#x2F;</a>