[RndTbl] 5TB - makes no sense
Trevor Cordes
trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Fri Mar 13 17:24:26 CDT 2015
On 2015-03-13 Adam Thompson wrote:
> Wasn't this one of the reasons Backblaze got so famous, for doing
> exactly that? Or was that just an availability issue at the time?
> -Adam
Ya, I was going to dig up that link and add it in but I forgot... I
think you originally posted that. Rang my bell too.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
It's a funny story. Probably the same thing is happening here but with
regards to the 20%+ decrease in the CA$? Well, that and hard drive mfr
insanity (or it goes to show the gougation (to coin a term) going on
when it comes to desktop hard drives)!
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