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They 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.
by jleahy 5y ago
They 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.”