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Presumably cost and availability. I remember reading at one point they were driving from store to store buying every drive they could find.
by pwinnski 6y ago
Presumably cost and availability. I remember reading at one point they were driving from store to store buying every drive they could find.
- hinkley 6y agoThat was during the flooding in Thailand that took out a huge chunk of hard drive manufacturing capacity. Electronics stores started putting quotas on purchases, so BB offered a bounty to friends and family who would bring in hard drives. They had a disassembly line gutting external hard drive enclosures for the hard drives, too. One of the drives in my array was acquired via a similar process. You should read the whole story. I should probably read it again myself. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/