[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)!


More information about the Roundtable mailing list