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If low volume is a problem for manufacturers because you don't need that much, the obvious solution is to increase volume by selling them. Of course that would
by infogulch 5y ago
If low volume is a problem for manufacturers because you don't need that much, the obvious solution is to increase volume by selling them. Of course that would introduce even more problems to solve, but at least volume wouldn't be one of them.
- jleahy 5y agoThey already sell them, but personally I thought they were too expensive, probably they were adding a mark-up on their build price when selling them.
- bluedino 5y agoI don't think Backblaze ever sold them, but 45Drives does. I'm not sure if they assemble them for BB or if they were just using their published design.
- igravious 5y agothey did at one point, fta: “Right after we introduced Storage Pod 1.0 to the world, we had to make a decision as to whether or not to make and sell Storage Pods in addition to our cloud-based services. We did make and sell a few Storage Pods—we needed the money—but we eventually chose software.”
- jleahy 5y agoIndeed, I was thinking of 45Drives.
- igravious 5y agoNot any more they don't, fta: “Right after we introduced Storage Pod 1.0 to the world, we had to make a decision as to whether or not to make and sell Storage Pods in addition to our cloud-based services. We did make and sell a few Storage Pods—we needed the money—but we eventually chose software.”
- igravious 5y agofta: “Right after we introduced Storage Pod 1.0 to the world, we had to make a decision as to whether or not to make and sell Storage Pods in addition to our cloud-based services. We did make and sell a few Storage Pods—we needed the money—but we eventually chose software.”
- ineedasername 5y agoServicing & warranty management for hardware sales is a very different business than their core competency.