12/5/2023 0 Comments Backblaze storage pod for saleIf its dimensions match normal 2.5" SSDs at around 100mm * 70mm * 6.9mm that would give 16 terabytes / (100mm * 70mm * 7mm) * (178mm * 437mm * 521mm) = 13.2 petabytes in 4U. Samsung claim to have a 16TB 2.5" SSD in the works - although details are pretty scarce at the moment. ![]() I don't know whether six times counts a a single order of magnitude, let alone multiple orders of magnitude, and the 10TB hard drives I linked are "enterprise" so there might be a substantial price premium. If you had 4U of hard drives with no space for power, cooling, interconnect etc you cold fit 10 terabytes / (26.1mm * 101.6mm * 147mm) * (178mm * 437mm * 521mm) = 1.04 petabytes into 4U HGST have a 10TB hard drive measuring 26.1mm * 101.6mm * 147mm and a 4U chassis measures 178mm * 437mm * 521mm Well, this article describes storage pods with 180TB of storage. Seems to me that the average storage per user must be well under 1 TB on their unlimited plans. If under 1 TB you'd be better of using B2. Please excuse me while I buy stock in Amazon/Box/Dropbox/Backblaze/etc.Īs a aside, as a personal user if you store over 1TB you are getting storage at a cheaper cost than B2 users. As a customer you must be paying for the cost of the "pod" every 2 months. So however long each pod lasts past 1 year is gravy (aside from the electricity + maintenance costs).Īmazon S3 must be making a killing. Add electricity + maintenance costs (of which I have no idea what it is) and you get the break-even number. That's 10-11 months to break even on the initial cost. ![]() They are planning to charge 0.005/GB on the B2 service this is made for. The cost of redundancy is 3/20 drives, which would place the cost to 0.0517/GB of data. Their cost for the pod (which they say includes labor) comes out to 0.044/GB. Interesting, with this information and some idea of what they pay for electricity +support staff/drive replacements/maintenance you could probably figure out their break-even mark.
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