Yev from Backblaze here -> The drives were EXACTLY the same as the ones we would put in to our storage pods prior to the crisis. We selected specific external d

Yev from Backblaze here -> The drives were EXACTLY the same as the ones we would put in to our storage pods prior to the crisis. We selected specific external drives to break open and check because we thought they might be similar, and we were right. The drives ended up being the same, just put in to an external shell. We've always used consumer level products to avoid the "enterprise tax", so reliability more or less stayed constant.