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Yev from Backblaze here -> > I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale. Yea, we used to buy drives wherever we could, b

by atYevP 8y ago

Yev from Backblaze here -> > I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale. Yea, we used to buy drives wherever we could, but that was years ago. We're larger now so we go through more established channels.

hinkley 8y ago
Also no natural disasters taking out the manufacturers again, right?
- atYevP 8y ago
  Can't really count on those NOT happening - but we are more prepared now ;)
  - hinkley 8y ago
    Yeah I mean that was the impetus for buying them off the shelves, wasn’t it? It was a crisis management technique not a business plan :)
    - atYevP 8y ago
      Yes, that's right. It was one of those "better think quick" scenarios and we did what we had to in order to stay in business!
- sigi45 8y ago
  What a bad time :|. When i remember correctly, it took over a year to get prices after the disaster.