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Are Backblaze the company that bought all the hard drives in the Bay Area during the 2011 crisis?
by Ezhik 11y ago
Are Backblaze the company that bought all the hard drives in the Bay Area during the 2011 crisis?
- DanBC 11y agoPossibly - there's a blog post where they trawled consumer stores to buy drives and drives in enclosures, and then removed the enclosures. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-and-1m-later/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-a... And the discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801334 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027
- bigiain 11y agoNot just the Bay Area either. They coined the phrase "hard drive shucking", 'cause they were buying consumer external usb drives, then digging the drive out and thorwing away the enclosures. That story is linked down near the end of the article: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
- atYevP 11y agoYev from Backblaze here -> Not ALL the hard drives, but yes. In fact we explicit told anyone that was out buying hard drives for us to leave some on the shelves for the average consumers going in to the stores, hopefully they listened.