The company is now on their (at least) third major revision of the chassis which you can learn about here: Backblaze Storage Pod (previous generation) Instead of going this route Backblaze built its own storage “pods” capable of holding 180TB of storage in a system that costs under $2,000 excluding the cost of 45 drives. Although heavily discounted (oftentimes upward of 60%) list prices for 1PB of enterprise storage in 2010-2011 were in the $1 million range. Enterprise storage is anything but inexpensive. Namely the cost of hard drives rose significantly after the Thailand flooding and the Western Digital – Hitachi and Seagate – Samsung mergers and some of the venture capital money started to wane as several players got securely established.īackblaze took a somewhat different approach to its competitors insofar as it built its own low cost storage infrastructure. There was a time when it appeared as though backup was heading to this type of model but a few things happened. While many other vendors offer cloud storage other major vendors (Box, Dropbox, Mozy, Google and Amazon for example) do not offer unlimited storage, especially at $5/ month. That makes it one of the larger published reports of hard drive availability that we have read to date.Īs a brief recap, Backblaze is a company that offers unlimited backup for $5/month. Backblaze finally released that information In a piece titled: What hard drive should I buy? The study is significant in that the company employs 27,134 consumer grade hard drives. We covered that Storage Reliability Figures from Backblaze release and one of the biggest questions was: aggregate numbers are great, but which hard drive manufacturer worked best. Backblaze recently released results of its hard drive reliability study.
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