the company retains some secret sauce - its techniques for de-duplication, encryption, and managing a data centre full of Pods.īackblaze's Andrew Klein picks up the story: The entire hardware design is open source.
But it.provides huge amounts of storage on a bootstrapped startup budget. It’s not an incredible performer, nor will it offer the ultimate in reliability.thanks to its consumer-class hardware. At today’s prices, could provide 90TB a typical 19 inch rack containing nine Pods could store more than ¾ of a petabyte. In the end, Budman tells me, its ingenuity meant Backblaze was able to procure.about 5.5 petabytes worth of capacity in the three months it was actively farming them.īut why were they buying cheap, consumer drives? Your humble editor recently described the Backblaze storage "Pod" like this:Ī 4U rackable server, containing as many cheap, desktop-grade SATA drives as could be squeezed in. buy up the external hard drives sold for consumer backup at stores.remov from their protective enclosures. some suppliers were offering.drives that used to cost $129 for around $600.something had to give.behind the scenes, the company was working like crazy farming hard drives from the only places it could still get them at a reasonable price. “Literally overnight.all the places we would go to get drives said, ‘Sorry, we don’t have any drives.’”
are the single biggest cost in the entire company.” Those are the words of Backblaze Founder and CEO Gleb Budman. the company had to get creative to keep up its 50TB-a-day hard drive habit. The story illustrates the kind of plight that can hit a smaller company that may not know all of its risks. One early trip.yielded 52 drives, enough to accommodate about two or three days' worth of Backblaze's.data needs. The first plan: Buying external drives at Costco andīest Buy. Extremely labor-intensive procurement of 1,838 hard drives with more than 5.5 petabytes of capacity - and a business that averted its own price-hike disaster.
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