“We see ourselves as a software/service company at heart, trying to build the easiest online backup service available,” Budman says. Imagine Apple inviting people to fully examine and contribute to its products. This openness is unusual for a hardware company. “We wanted to share some of that good karma back.” “We benefitted greatly from many other open-source projects and the efforts that thousands of people put into them,” he explains to VentureBeat. Budman has it right there in his blog, in writing. “You’re welcome to use the design” is a phrase rarely uttered these days in Silicon Valley. ![]() It provides some interesting insight to a technology most of us use - unconsciously - but few will ever see or think about. Even if you aren’t interested in building a cloud farm, Budman’s writing is extremely novice-friendly. This is one of the longest blog posts you will read today. Today’s Backblaze post includes detais on how to make a version 2.0 storage pod, data on the total cost of ownership, the impact of heat on drives and more. For more background, read the original blog post. ![]() The cost of the hard drives dominates the price of the overall pod and the system is made entirely of commodity parts. The company shares images of a half-assembled pod. “500,000 people read the blog post and hundreds of companies around the world have since built the storage pods for their own purposes.”īackblaze calls those 135-terabyte, 4U servers “storage pods.” They are self-contained units, composed of metal cases with commodity hardware inside, all designed to put storage online. “When we first open-sourced the storage pod design in 2009, it was the first time it had ever been done,” says Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of Backblaze, in an interview with VentureBeat. Today Backblaze posted a new blog full of information most companies keep hidden about building and running a 15+ petabyte cloud storage farm.
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