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FYI: Protocase (http://www.protocase.com/ http://www.protocase.com/), the company that will build you the Backblaze case, sent me an email yesterday announcing
by cpt_yesterday 15y ago
FYI: Protocase (http://www.protocase.com/ http://www.protocase.com/), the company that will build you the Backblaze case, sent me an email yesterday announcing that they are now selling completed Backblase storage pods without the hard drives for $5395.00. I'm not sure if this is the new design or not but I've set up 3 of these and finding some of the parts (SATA back planes) took weeks of searching and shady dealings.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoI'm considering putting a few of these together. Do you have any sources you'd mind sharing (preferably not shady :) for the harder-to-find parts?
- cpt_yesterday 15y agoThe 5 port SATA backplanes were the hardest part to find when I built these. You can get them through http://www.chyangfun.com/ http://www.chyangfun.com/ which is who Backblaze gets them through and we did too. They are hard to get ahold of sometimes so that's why I was looking around and found some shady companies selling them. Protocase mentioned above sells these which would probably be the easiest company to get these through. Other than this, the other parts are pretty standard and are easy to find with some simple searching.
- mother 15y agoThis is awesome and I hope to get our company to buy into this concept! Feels similar to what the internet archive does.