Disclosure: I work at Backblaze > I wouldn't expect them to know about this coming up / have enough spare capacity. Backblaze ALWAYS has to have extra capacit

Disclosure: I work at Backblaze > I wouldn't expect them to know about this coming up / have enough spare capacity. Backblaze ALWAYS has to have extra capacity for "bumpy" customer growth. We have three types of extra capacity: 1) Deployed, spinning drives accepting customer data live but not yet filled. This "live buffer" is usually 60 days or more, right now it is about 90 days (of "normal load"). Right now Backblaze's storage is growing by about 2 Petabytes per month, so we have 6+ Petabytes spinning awaiting new customers. 2) An entire month of hard drives sitting on the "loading dock" (these can be deployed and accepting customer data in maybe 24 hours in a complete panic). This is about 2 Petabytes. 3) The "contract to purchase 3 months of drives and parts" at a pre-established price from our suppliers. Under most circumstances we can accelerate orders and get drives accepting data within two weeks. This is another 6 Petabytes. If the burn rate approaches ANYWHERE NEAR that high we'll scramble and do better than that to accept the customers. If it really looks like we cannot handle the load, we have a setting that says "Members Only" that no longer allows new customers to sign up, but allows all existing members to continue backing up and doing restores. Once a customer is paying Backblaze we must honor our contract with that customer.