Boxes full of disks used to be special, in a past time there was only the glorious Thumper. BB pods and hyperscaler servers built by Quanta and Supermicro have

Boxes full of disks used to be special, in a past time there was only the glorious Thumper. BB pods and hyperscaler servers built by Quanta and Supermicro have pushed "boxes full or disks" into race to the bottom territory. Software is now the only thing that separates services like BB, Dropbox, et al. Don't cry for BB pods, they did their job and now you can get a higher quality chassis at a similar cost basis from Dell as a result.