Now THIS is how you build storage for the cloud!

Sep 01 2009 Published by under Ramblings

I’m glad SOMEONE finally got it right… yay for BackBlaze! 😀

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867.

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

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