Is the NSA Using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM Surveillance Data?

Backblaze knows how to milk an entirely unrelated event for attracting attention on themselves !

&gt; When SGI bought super-computer maker Cray in 1996, our CTO who worked there at &gt; the time said the running joke was, &quot;SGI sold no units this quarter, but made &gt; a healthy profit.&quot; That wasn’t magic accounting. It was the NSA requiring &gt; purchases not be disclosed.<p>Love this quote; when this kind of thing happens does it prove for some difficult finances&#x2F;auditing? Can you even report the units sold (SKUs, quantities)?

Are those calculations taking in a healthy amount of redundancy? BlackBlaze Storage Pods were designed without any redundancy as it&#x27;s done purely in software by the company. They just let the hardware fail and replace the drives. The data is then copied from a near-by, healthy pod.<p>I&#x27;m sure the NSA has redundancy in their design but I wonder to what extent. Are there off-site backups? Could a physical disaster cause them to lose most or all of their data?