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The hard drive crisis: petabytes of storage, banned from Costco

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Posted by: dfinnigan Date: October 9, 2012
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When last year’s hard drive shortage threatened Backblaze’s all-you-can-store cloud backup service, the company had to get creative to keep up its 50TB-a-day hard drive habit. The solution: external hard drives from retail stores and an army of volunteers making sure they kept coming.   “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…