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Dropbox (or maybe BackBlaze?) called that "shucking".

• LordDragonfang 5y ago
  If you're thinking of the same article as I am, it was indeed Backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
• andruby 5y ago
  That was BackBlaze https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
• taylorfinley 5y ago
  I don't know if Backblaze's usage predates it becoming the common way to describe this practice, but it's definitely caught on. For example see any deal post on an external drive on reddit /r/datahoarder
• sbarre 5y ago
  I worked at an ISP in 1996, where we would buy external Boca 28.8k modems in bulk from retailers and take the boards out to put them in our racks because they were cheaper - yet identical - to the "ISP-grade" versions that Boca sold as just boards. Back then we referred to it as shucking the modems, so it's definitely not a new term in IT/computing (never mind the actual origin of the word).
  • loeg 5y ago
    The verb comes from shucking (taking the husk off) corn.
    • CPLX 5y ago
      And/or oysters.
    • sbarre 5y ago
      Yes I know.. Hence my final comment about the origin of the word pre-dating IT/technology.