On: Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014

[brianwski]

Disclaimer- I work at Backblaze. Here is a chart of the cost of a Petabyte that shows why we cannot use Amazon S3: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/co...

It is from our original blog post about our storage pods (we assemble 45 hard drives in some sheet metal with off the shelf parts):

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-...