How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco

concealment writes with this extract from GigaOm: "'We buy lots and lots of hard drives . . . . [They] are the single biggest cost in the entire company.' Those are the words of Backblaze Founder and CEO Gleb Budman, whose company offers unlimited cloud backup for just $5 a month, and fills 50TB worth of new storage a day in its custom-built, open source pod architecture. So one might imagine the cloud storage startup was pretty upset when flooding in Thailand caused a global shortage on internal hard drives last year. Backblaze details much the process in a Tuesday-morning blog post, including the hijinks that followed as the company got creative trying to figure out ways around the new hard drive limits. Maps were drawn, employees were cut off from purchasing hard drives at Costco — both in-person throughout Silicon Valley and online (despite some great efforts to avoid detection, such as paying for hard drives online using gift cards) — and friends and family across the country were conscripted into a hard-drive-buying army."

Comments

Re:House burns down?

[philipmather]

I would say at your parent's house but this being slashdot that's probably not offsite.

Re:I don't get it

[BetterSense]

Unless the drives are copyrighted!

Ob python

[rossdee]

photography eh?

Nudge, Nudge, wink wink
Say no more

Re:All on consumer grade drives.....

[oodaloop]

I think I had a time limited error recovery bit trying to read that post.

Re:Wow

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Indeed. here's an article about some rocket surgeons.

Re:Wow

[JTsyo]

I have a BLACK camera, what does that have to do with anything?