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I'm curious what is being used for the drives (and to a lesser extent, memory) - Dell or OEM and how does support work? We sell a lot of Dell and for base mode
by wilhil 5y ago
I'm curious what is being used for the drives (and to a lesser extent, memory) - Dell or OEM and how does support work?
We sell a lot of Dell and for base models, it is very economical compared to self built.
The moment however we add a few high capacity hard drives or memory, all bets are off the table and it's usually 1.75-4x the price of a white box part.
I get not supporting the part itself, but, had them not support a raid card error (corrupt memory) after they saw we had a third party drive.... we only buy a handful of servers a month - I can imagine this possibly being a huge problem for Backblaze though...
- wfleming 5y agoBackblaze has usually sourced their own hard drives, and I suspect they still are/will. (The post didn't seem to indicate otherwise.) Every year they post a summary of what models they're working with and how they perform, which is usually good reading. This is last year's: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-fo....
- ineedasername 5y agoThe post didn't seem to indicate otherwise That appeared to depend on whether the vendor imposed massive markups on the drives. However they also mentioned service etc.: If they struck a deal with Dell, then Dell might be perfectly happy to sell the servers at a very modest profit while making their money on the service agreement.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoEspecially flash storage goes through the roof at enterprise purchasing. I've bought the drive trays and used consumer SSDs in servers more than a few times with no real ill effects where SATA is acceptable. If you need SAS, you just need to accept the pain that is about to come when you order.