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Yev from Backblaze here -> Good question! We actually took that in to consideration when designing them. In our datacenter the floors can handle it, but it's de
by atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Good question! We actually took that in to consideration when designing them. In our datacenter the floors can handle it, but it's definitely something that should be considered if you're thinking about building these out. Check with your datacenter about what their "floor spec" is :)
- nickpsecurity 10y agoDropping in to say that from keeping the business financially in good shape to innovation level to opening up the hardware.... normally I'm the critic but all I can say is GREAT WORK. Good example to set and good tech. Keep it up. :)
- atYevP 10y agoThanks! We really do this so that others follow suite. It's sort of happened with Facebook's Open Compute, and Netflix's Open Connect releasing some of their data. Dropbox recently brought things in-house as well, so we're hoping they start talking about their goodies too! It makes things more interesting, and inexpensive storage opens up the possibilities for a lot of cool stuff. My favorite example is science labs. We've heard from a lot of them that they used to run experiments, collect the relevant data, and toss the rest. It was less expensive to run the experiment again than storing all of the data. That's changing now with storage being less expensive, and they're able to keep the entire experiment data set intact, and they love that because it means in the future they can take a look at all of the information surrounding their findings, and if the technology or science changes, they'll have the entire data set to play with instead of just a subset. Very cool stuff!