Even if you aren’t interested in building a cloud farm, Budman’s writing is extremely novice-friendly. This is one of the longest blog posts you will read today. Today’s Backblaze post includes detais on how to make a version 2.0 storage pod, data on the total cost of ownership, the impact of heat on drives and more. For more background, read the original blog post.
The cost of the hard drives dominates the price of the overall pod and the system is made entirely of commodity parts. The company shares images of a half-assembled pod. “500,000 people read the blog post and hundreds of companies around the world have since built the storage pods for their own purposes.”īackblaze calls those 135-terabyte, 4U servers “storage pods.” They are self-contained units, composed of metal cases with commodity hardware inside, all designed to put storage online. “When we first open-sourced the storage pod design in 2009, it was the first time it had ever been done,” says Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of Backblaze, in an interview with VentureBeat.
Today Backblaze posted a new blog full of information most companies keep hidden about building and running a 15+ petabyte cloud storage farm.
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