Disclaimer- I work at Backblaze. Here is a chart of the cost of a Petabyte that shows why we cannot use Amazon S3: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/up

Disclaimer- I work at Backblaze. Here is a chart of the cost of a Petabyte that shows why we cannot use Amazon S3: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cost-of-a-petabyte-chart.jpg https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/co... It is from our original blog post about our storage pods (we assemble 45 hard drives in some sheet metal with off the shelf parts): https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage-2/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-...