how backblaze weathered the hard drive shortage (funny)
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 1:01 pm
i thought this was a great read.
some gems from the blog post:
some gems from the blog post:
ackblaze is committed to providing unlimited data backup, but with our normal channels charging usury prices for the hard drives core to our business, we needed a miracle. We got two: Costco and Best Buy. On Brian’s whiteboard he listed every Costco and Best Buy in the San Francisco Bay Area and then some. We would go to each location and buy as many 3 TB drives as possible.
On Christmas Eve, Gleb, our CEO, stopped by a friend’s house to pick up eighty 3TB drives his friend had acquired when an online site forgot to limit the quantity he could order. It had taken the FedEx guy nearly 30 minutes to unload them and carry them up to his friend’s apartment. As Gleb was lugging boxes of hard drives to his car to take back to Backblaze, he realized that the hard drives he was loading were worth more than the car he was loading them into.
Reminds me that the stereo was worth more than the rest of my 1985 Dodge Charger.
I've always loved how they assembled their system, this just make me love them more